Juan Alvarado, governor of Huánuco, will go to prison for 18 months, while investigations against him into the alleged irregular purchase of 7995 laptops continue. The Office of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor accuses the regional chief of the crime of aggravated collusion to economic damage of S/ 23 million per State, according to a report from the Comptroller's Office.
Elmer Contreras, judge of the Third Office of the Preparatory Investigation Court of Huánuco, said that Alvarado meets the requirements to go to prison, since there is a danger of escape, and his freedom represents an obstacle to the investigation.
Given the complexity of the case, the judge stated that “he needs the maximum period (for investigations) provided by law, for the facts to be clarified. Whereby, pursuant to Article 268 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, this office will decide to declare the 18-month preventive detention order against Juan Alvarado Cornelio (Governor of Huánuco), Luz Rodríguez Ramos (former Social Development Manager), Darwin Campos Soto (former Systems Assistant) and Luis Bedregal Gonzales for the alleged commission of the crime against the public administration in the form of aggravated collusion in aggravation of the Peruvian State, Huánuco Regional Government”.
It is worth mentioning that Juan Alvarado and his co-defendants could be sentenced to 12 years in prison for the crime of aggravated collusion. After this pretrial detention order against the regional chief, the one who will succeed him in office will be Lieutenant Governor Erasmo Fernández, an official who denounced the irregular purchase of the said electronic material.
COMPTROLLER'S REPORT
According to the report of the Comptroller General of the Republic, it detailed that there was an imbalance of more than 23 million soles in Lenovo computers delivered by Pomme Corporativo, represented by Luis Bedregal.
“The manner and circumstances of the crime, the seriousness and the damage caused to the Peruvian state, these criteria oblige us to stand at 12 years of imprisonment,” said the prosecutor during the pre-trial detention hearings, which began on March 18.
GOVERNORS IN THE SPOTLIGHT AFTER ACTS OF CORRUPTION DURING THEIR EFFORTS
As of October 2021, it was known that 18 governors were being investigated for various corruption issues, as is known from this group, one has a sentence and is at large a fugitive from justice, three detainees in pre-trial detention or preliminary detention, one with house arrest and one prevented from leaving the country.
In Lambayeque, the governor, Anselmo Lozano Centurion, is under house arrest, following the decision of the appeals chamber for the investigation of joining a criminal organization dedicated to obtaining bribes through public works of the District Municipality of La Victoria, during the 2015-2018 administration.
In Huánuco, the regional governor, Juan Alvarado Cornelio is being investigated for alleged acts of corruption. According to the police, he would integrate, together with relatives and other officials, the alleged criminal organization called “The Untouchables of the Works”.
In Áncash, the regional governor, Juan Carlos Morillo Ulloa, is being detained for the investigation into the alleged crime of collusion in the acquisition of property at the “Eleazar Guzmán Barrón” hospital in Nuevo Chimbote.
OTHER CITIES WHERE GOVERNORS ARE BEING INVESTIGATED
Tumbes
Florentino Dios Benites: Sentenced to four years in prison. He's on the run.
Puno
Agustín Luque Chayña: Investigated for alleged irregularities in school implementation
Huancavelica
Maciste Díaz Abad: He was sentenced to four years in suspended prison, but the sentence was appealed and overturned.
Cusco
Jean Paul Benavente García: Investigated by alleged corruption actors.
Loreto
Elisban Ochoa Sosa: Investigated for alleged acts of corruption.
Pasco
Pedro Ubaldo Polinar: Investigated for the alleged crime of omission, refusal or delay in functional acts.
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