The Peruvian Attorney General’s Office has filed this Friday an indictment against former President Martin Vizcarra, requesting 15 years in prison for allegedly committing a crime of passive bribery.
According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the former Peruvian president would have benefited from the expansion of the agricultural frontier Lomas de Ilo-Moquegua and the expansion of the Moquegua Hospital, «circumstance that would generate the existence of a real concurrence of crimes».
In addition to 15 years of imprisonment, the Prosecutor’s Office has requested nine years of disqualification from holding public office, as detailed by the judicial body itself in a statement.
This preparatory investigation, which began in March 2021, revolves around alleged bribes that the former president would have received when he was regional governor of Moquegua by companies linked to the case ‘Club de la construcción’ in exchange for the two projects, as reported by the broadcaster RPP.
However, Vizcarra had already been disqualified in April 2021 for 10 years after congressional approval for being involved in the ‘Vacunagate’ case.
The full Congress took such decision after finding him responsible for having committed six infractions to the country’s Constitution in his term as president — in the period from March 23, 2019 to November 9, 2020 — by having been vaccinated against COVID-19 in an irregular way as well as allowing his wife, Maribel Diaz, and his older brother, Cesar Vizcarra, to be vaccinated, according to ‘El Comercio’.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
