Daniel Urresti spent the early hours of this Thursday at the headquarters of the National Criminal Investigation Directorate of the National Police (Dirinkri), in Cercado de Lima, after he was sentenced to 12 years in prison for his co-authorship in the murder of a journalist Hugo Bustios in November 1988, when he was a captain in the Peruvian army stationed in ayacucho.
Ex-presidential candidate was transferred to Dirinkri located on Avenida España after the pronouncement of the verdict, which lasted more than eight hours, at the headquarters of the National High Court in the center of Lima. After that, he was taken to legal medicine, where he stayed for half an hour before being transferred back to the isolation ward. Dirinkri.
All along the way Urresti He avoided showing himself to the press and answering their questions. In the van, too, the former Minister of State covered his face with the blue jacket of the suit he was wearing.
Daniel Urresty wait now in Dirinkri that in the next few hours the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE) to determine in which prison he will be placed so that he can serve his sentence.
Early this Thursday morning, after the announcement of the verdict, the Judicial Chamber ordered the immediate imprisonment of the retired officer in a penitentiary.
Urresti He was also found guilty of attempted murder to the detriment of the journalist as well. Edward Rojas.
The court ruling found that Urresti along with other soldiers, who were dressed in civilian clothes, came under fire Hugo Bustios and Rojas, and then detonated an explosive device over the body of the first of them, at that time a correspondent for Caretas magazine. According to his account, Eduardo Rojas managed to escape.
According to the complaint, these events took place on November 24, 1988, at the military base of the Peruvian army of Castropampa in Huanta (Ayacucho).
In 2018 Daniel Urresty – when he was a candidate for mayor of Lima – he was acquitted of this murder by Bench B of the National Criminal Chamber, considering that there were no grounds to prove his responsibility. However, in April 2019, the Supreme Court’s Permanent Criminal Division declared the acquittal null and void. Urresty Elera and appointed a new court.
Daughter of Hugo Bustios: “Justice has been done!”
Sharmeli Bustios Patiñojournalist’s daughter Hugo Bustios, celebrated the prison term of Daniel Urresti for the murder of his father. “Justice has prevailed!” he wrote on his Twitter account.
In addition, leaving the court session, he told the press: “In relation to your colleague, justice has triumphed.”
“I expected this verdict on October 4, 2018, and it was not so, we had to apply to the Supreme Court of Justice, and this affected the cancellation of the acquittal against Mr. Daniel Urresty (…) I take comfort in the fact that for a long time justice evaded the command of impunity. Glory to God and all the people who consistently and unconditionally accompanied us,” he said.
He added that the justice lies in the fact that “we were denied”, but that we managed to respond to the struggle that began with his mother, Margherita Patiño, and find those responsible for the murder Hugo Bustios in Huanta (Ayacucho). “I have nothing to doubt, on the contrary, I am very grateful, this is a fair verdict,” he said.
Urresti’s defense appeals verdict
Alexander Leivalawyer for former Minister Urresti, confirmed that they would appeal the verdict Interim Agreement of the Third National Supreme Criminal Chamberwho sentenced his client to 12 years in prison and assured that his client was calm despite the court decision.
“The verdict is absolutely unfair, and therefore we are convinced that it will be overturned in the second instance. Of course (we are going to appeal) Daniel Urresti is calm because he is aware of all the shortcomings that the sentence was passed and that it will be overturned,” he said in press statements.
The lawyer stressed that Daniel Urresty undergo appropriate control be transferred to prisonbut still calm.
“He was completely surprised by the verdict, but generally calm enough that it would be overturned. Now he should be transferred to legal medicine so that he can pass the legal exams, then he will be transferred to the prison of the judiciary,” he added.
Leiva, that the arguments of the Criminal Chamber, distorting the defense Urresti on the death of Bustios has no factual or evidentiary basis, and for this reason they will present an appeal already this Thursday.
Source: RPP
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