PPK: Judicial order of power, disability to leave the country for two and a half years

On Tuesday, Judge Viktor Zunigaurday ordered 30 months of disability against former President Pedro Pablo Kuchinski (PPK). An investigation followed by money laundering crimes, procedural fraud, and false reports of alleged illegal financing in the 2016 election campaign.

The action was also taken against Alfonso Grado Carraro, Carlos Porto Carrero Mendoza (former legal personality secretary of the Party of North Po Cambio, Peru), José Lavan Giorzo (former treasurer) and Carlos Priale Marquina. Although the term is not over, it has all been investigated for money laundering crimes and other crimes for alleged misconduct that contributed to the party's election campaign that led PPK to the presidency in 2016.

Judge Zúñiga considered that “in this process there are procedural risks that are determined by the severity of the penalties expected, the magnitude of the damage caused and, in particular, whether there is a risk of obstruction”.

The judiciary also issued additional restrictions on the PPK and others under investigation, such as not being absent at the place of residence, not communicating directly or indirectly with witnesses, experts or co-investigators, and promptly reporting to the tax office or the preparatory investigation court, if necessary; taking responsibility for activities to the court on the first working day of each month.

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The investigation into PPK began in December 2018 after five citizens who appeared as contributors for a total of S/161,647 to the Peruvians for Cambio refused to give money during the 2016 presidential election campaign.

In addition, an ambitious and effective collaborator revealed to the prosecutor Germán Juárez that the company that was part of a “construction club” that won the work in exchange for bribes donated $100,000 to the PPK campaign.

At the end of the hearing, the rest of the lawyers of others involved with PPK's lawyer Gisella Ruiz announced that they would appeal the exit restrictions and disability.

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PPK is the fourth former President of Peru to be involved in a lava jato corruption scandal. A year after the former president's resignation from his presidency, in 2019, the Prosecutor's Perez team raided four buildings located in Chorillos, Miraflores and San Isidro, all linked to the former president. It should be noted that the association with Odebrecht, the company questioned, was one of the main reasons for its departure from the top office of the Peruvian government.

While managing President Alejandro Toledo, Odebrecht was awarded sections 2 and 3 of the famous Inter-Maritime Highway, but this happened after Jorge Barata, the head of the construction company in Peru, promised to deliver a bribe of $35 million to the former president. Publication: Ozo Publico.

The tax theory assures that PPK has promoted “the adequacy of a favorable regulatory framework” for Brazilian companies. According to the aforementioned journalistic report, this was done so that Odebrecht could later economically favor the private interests of the defendants.Kuczynski would have intervened in legal regulations that allowed road construction to “evade subsequent control” and declare “national interests” with the Olmos project.

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