On Monday, September 12, the judiciary will decide whether to charge Fuerza Popular leader Keiko Fujimori with money laundering crime. Ad hoc prosecutor’s office decided to also include Jaime Yoshiyama, Pierre Figari, Ana Herz, José Chlimper, Augusto Bedoya and Adriana Tarazon.
Preliminary Judge, Victor Zuniga, will be responsible for evaluating the arguments presented by Giuliana Losa Avalos, Fujimori’s lawyer. The lawyer mentions that her client and other participants did not commit money laundering crimes attributed to them during the 2011 and 2016 presidential campaigns.
The request for the Fujimorists’ defense was made as part of the charge control hearing, a previous step towards a public oral trial that Judge Zuniga will have to evaluate.
What does Fujimori’s defense claim?
Advocate Juliana Loza notes that the source of the offense is required to set up a money laundering offense; that is, an illegal act that generates an undue profit in order to reap that benefit later. In addition, it clarifies that not any illegal act can be considered the original crime, but it must be serious, such as drug trafficking, terrorism, corruption, kidnapping, extortion, tax fraud and others.
Prosecutor’s response
Faced with Fujimori’s defense, prosecutor José Domingo Pérez appealed the Supreme Court’s verdict, which states that fraud in the management of a legal person can, in fact, be considered as a source of crime in money laundering cases. In addition, he recalled the cases of Abimael Guzmán and Alberto Fujimori, which established jurisprudence regarding indirect authorship in crimes of organized crime.
Source: RPP
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