The crimes charged with Ricardo Rojas, president of a board of prosecutors arrested in VES

The president of the Board of Provincial Criminal Prosecutors of Lima South, Ricardo César Rojas León, was preliminarily arrested early Monday after the break-in of his house located in block A, lot 22, group 10, in sector 6 of Villa El Salvador. The prosecutor is investigated for allegedly joining a criminal organization dedicated to land trafficking.

In a joint operation, which began at 02.00 hours, agents of the Division for Investigations of High Complexity Crimes (Diviac), with the support of the Prosecutor's Office, arrested Rojas León. As part of the operation, six buildings located in the districts of Ate, Punta Negra, Lurín, Villa El Salvador and San Juan de Miraflores were raided.

But what crimes would this important prosecutor have committed who was in charge of a group of provincial prosecutors in South Lima and who, on Monday, was going to swear in new officials who should be responsible for executing the acts of investigation against alleged criminals.

CRIMES CHARGED TO HIM

Rojas is credited with committing crimes since 2012. These would be bribes of between $5,000 and $30,000 received in exchange for reporting or filing cases related to land trafficking on the beaches that were in charge of a group of officials from the Provincial Prosecutors Board of South Lima.

In October 2021, justice had already seized three properties linked to prosecutor Rojas León. The court decision indicated that he had investigations for bribery and criminal organization.

Rojas reportedly received bribes, including one in 2016 in exchange for filing an investigation into money laundering against a member of the criminal organization “Los secos del sur”, dedicated to land trafficking, extortion and murder in Pachacamac.

“The secos del sur” would be free and would have returned to Manchay to commit their wrongful acts.

An aspiring effective collaborator pointed out that the alleged leader of “Los Secos del Sur”, Bernardino Esplana Enríquez, was meeting with prosecutor Ricardo Cesar Rojas León. “We went to CT San Juan de Miraflores, in a cevicheria, where we met with the chief prosecutor of the First Prosecutor's Office of Villa Alejandro, Dr. Rojas, in order to open an investigation against him and/or file the proceedings against him, in exchange he delivered an envelope containing money, approximately 3,000 soles, depending on the case arrives up to 15,000 soles”, the statement states.

“In Lurín, at the Huancauasi restaurant, where he met with the chief prosecutor of the Second Prosecutor's Office of Villa Alejandro, in order not to open an investigation against him and/or file the proceedings, he also handed him money, as did the other prosecutor, in similar amounts. In 2016, it was one of the most recent, the filing of a complaint made by a woman from Pampa Chica, in which she gave 300,000 soles to the prosecutor,” he adds.

Prosecutor Rojas León gained national notoriety in 2015. In January of that year, when she was in charge of the First Prosecutor's Office Specialized in Money Laundering, she reopened a criminal investigation against former first lady Nadine Heredia for alleged money-laundering, but the case was closed due to lack of evidence.

In 2012, Ricardo César Rojas did not order the prosecutor on duty to go to the police station in Punta Negra to take the steps ordered by the police for the intervention of the former mayor of that district, Willington Ojeda Guerra, who had been arrested for driving in the state drunkenness and resistance to authority. That time, Ojeda Guerra went free, he only had to pay a civil repair and his driver's license was not taken away.

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