Municipal elections: about 112 people were detained for identity theft

public service reported Tuesday that 112 people were arrested on suspicion of committing the crime of identity theft during the 2022 regional and municipal elections last Sunday.

The report was submitted Crime observatorythat the large number of cases of impersonation of other voters identified and registered on Election Day exceeds by more than 100% the number of cases registered in the 2018 elections. According to the institution, this is due to the large presence of prosecutors in the premises of voting at the national level, and also the diligent actions of the members of the polling station to refute these facts.

prosecution indicated that the report also contains 28 cases of violent acts registered in the tax districts of Tacna (3), Amazonas (3), Ancash (3), Moquegua (3), Apurimac (2), Ucayali (2), Lima (2) , La Libertad (2), Arequipa (1), Cajamarca (1), Callao (1), Cañete (1), Huancavelica (1), Junin (1), Lambayeque (1) and Piura (1), which are being explored public service.

Among these cases are riots that took place in the Marcabal district, Sanchez Carrión (La Libertad) province, which unfortunately resulted in the death of a citizen, events that are the subject of an investigation by the Provincial Mixed Corporate Prosecutor’s Office of the aforementioned province. ; as well as the riots committed on September 28 in the city of East Lima Special Electoral Juryin which, on request public servicea citizen allegedly involved in these events was sentenced to nine months in pre-trial detention.

Election campaigning was carried out at 542 polling stations.

The ombudsman’s office said it found that more than 542 polling stations were campaigning nearby on Sunday. In addition, campaigning in favor of the candidate was carried out in 34 premises, despite the fact that this was directly recognized as a violation of the electoral legislation.

There were also 117 situations of support for a particular candidate inside or outside the polling stations at the national level.

Cusco: Candidate killed in car crash will win election

Frank Richard Yuca Meza, the mayoral candidate of Paucartambo who died in a traffic accident last month, will lead the count in last Sunday’s 2022 regional and municipal elections and become the province’s next mayor in Cusco.

According to ONPE, in 97% of the minutes counted, he will become the next mayor of this province. On September 10, Yuka Meza died along with four other members of his entourage, among whom was Benito Huaman Suma, a candidate for the First Regiduria of that city.