Keiko Fujimori: JV reaffirms resolution rejecting prosecutors’ request for access to ‘early evidence’

Power of attorney confirmed the decision to reject the tax request so that it can be put forward “as a preliminary test” statements by three former executives of a Brazilian company debrecht in a criminal trial against the leader of Fuerza Popular, Keiko Fujimoriand others for contributions to their c2011 and 2016 presidential campaigns

Second National Court of Criminal Appeal adopted this measure, rejecting an appeal filed by the State Department to set aside the decision Judge Victor Zuniga Urday which declared this tax request unfounded in the first instance.

The prosecutor’s office, in its request, argued that the testimony Marcelo Bahia Odebrecht, Jorge Simões Barata and Luis Antonio Mameri They are necessary for the stage of oral trial in this case, as they serve to prove the crime of money laundering in a criminal organization in the modality of placing illegal money from the transnational company Odebrecht.

However, the higher chamber held that, since the grounds for “urgency to obtain preliminary evidence” established by the Code of Criminal Procedure were not met, the requirement formulated by the court was not amparo. public serviceTherefore, the contested decision must be upheld.

Judge is currently Victor Zuniga Urdai oversees the criminal charge that prosecutor José Domingo Pérez Gómez filed against the individuals involved in the case as an act before the stage of the relevant oral proceedings.

Tax charge and request to the judiciary

In March last year, the prosecutor Jose Domingo Perezfrom the special group Lava Jato charged the leader Keiko Fujimori and 41 others, including in the case of Kokteles, who was investigating alleged illegal donations during the 2011 election campaign.

The charge was brought under the article on crimes of organized crime, money laundering, obstruction of justice, false testimony in administrative proceedings. The fiscal document includes more than 15,000 pages and was submitted to the court Victor Zuniga Urday.

When Keiko Fujimori, Vicente Silva Checa, Pierre Figari, Ana Hertz, Jaime Yoshiyama, Joseph Chlimper D Adriana Tarasona the punishment requested by the State Department is 30 years and 10 months in prison for the above crimes, and for 33 other defendants, the sentences range from six to 22 years in prison.

The prosecutor’s indictment also contains an arrest warrant. Mark Vito Villanellahusband Keiko Fujimori, to 22 years and eight months for the alleged money laundering offense and to 6 years and 6 months for Juliana Lozaleader’s lawyer strength of the peoplefor the alleged offense of obstruction of justice.