The Permanent Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Peru has rejected the appeal filed by former President Ollanta Humala (2011-2016) to overturn the indictment for alleged money laundering and criminal organization, which kept him in pre-trial detention between June 2017 and April 2018.
The Prosecutor’s Office thus achieves an important victory and manages to sit Humala, his wife, Nadine Heredia, and representatives of the Peruvian Nationalist Party before a court to answer to the accusations of irregular financing during his presidential campaigns of 2006 and 2011.
The Supreme Court justices have pointed out that the allegations made by Humala’s defense do not dismiss the evidence presented by the Lava Jato task force but rather affect it, making it necessary for the case to be clarified in a public trial.
This trial Humala will have to face is similar to the one faced by other former presidents such as Alejandro Toledo and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, as well as the several times unsuccessful presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori, who has also been accused of receiving illicit financing from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.
According to the accusation, the companies OAS and Odebrecht – the latter present in numerous corruption cases throughout the continent – would have irregularly financed Humala’s campaign in 2011, which gave him access to the House of Pizarro after defeating Keiko Fujimori; while in 2006 he would have received funding from the late former president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
