The Prosecutor’s Office requested 15 years in prison and disqualification for former President Martín Vizcarra for alleged corruption

The Lava Jato Special Team formulated the accusatory request against the former president Martin Vizcarra (2018-2020), for whom a 15-year prison sentence has been requested for the crime of own passive bribery.

The prosecutor’s accusation includes two cases, detailed the Public ministry in a statement released Friday. These are the Lomas de Ilo project and the Moquegua Hospital Expansion and Improvement project, executed when Vizcarra was regional governor.

The Prosecutor’s Office also requested nine years of disqualification against the former head of state from holding public office.

In 2020, prosecutor Germán Juárez, from the team investigating the Lava Jato case in Peru, already requested to question Vizcarra on two occasions, since the companies that won the tenders in Moquegua, where he was a popular regional governor, are also being investigated engaged in the ‘Construction Club’.

It is about a group of companies supposedly sharing out public works in exchange for millionaire bribes.

The Prosecutor’s Office reported that it has managed to reactivate the International Judicial Cooperation mechanism with the Brazilian authorities in relation to the Odebrecht case, suspended on November 1 following a request from the company.

“Prosecutors Rafael Vela and José Domingo Pérez, together with the ad hoc attorney, Silvana Carrión Ordinola, signed the act with which the representatives of the CNO company (Odebrecht) request the Brazilian Attorney General’s Office to reactivate the requests for international cooperation of the Peruvian prosecutor’s office,” reads a statement from the Public Ministry.

The initial decision of the Federal Public Ministry of Brazil was adopted in response to a lawsuit by Novonor, a former odebrechtwhich denounced the violation by the Peruvian authorities of the agreement signed between both parties, which includes the “non-use of evidence produced in Brazil” against the company in that jurisdiction.

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