The prosecutor José Domingo Pérez, of the Lava Jato special team, said Monday that the conversations via WhatsApp that – according to the ex-partner of Alan Garcia, Roxanne Cheesman- kept with Jorge BarataThey show that they did well by requesting the ex-president’s preliminary detention, since, he said, his surroundings would have sought to pressure effective collaborators and hinder the investigation.
“What these private conversations unveiled journalistically demonstrate, if these are true, is that the Public Ministry, in this case the special team, was not wrong to have requested the preliminary detention of Alan García Pérez, because it shows that the action of justice was obstructed to reach the effective collaborator Jorge Barata ”Perez said in press statements.
“(The conversations) show the approach, the contact to prevent Jorge Barata from expressing the truth”, insisted the prosecutor, who requested preliminary detention against Alan Garcia on that date.
April 17, 2019, the day Alan Garcia He took his life, his then partner Roxanne Cheesman He contacted Jorge Henrique Simoes Barata via WhatsApp to inform him about the fact and ask him to “tell the truth.”
According to the conversations that Cheesman delivered to “Fourth Power,” the former construction superintendent replied that he never spoke of Garcia “because there was never anything to talk about and he knew about it.”
Cheesman, who was in the United States, decides to call Barata. When you don’t get an answer, write to him on WhatsApp. The first thing Garcia’s partner does is identify himself in this way: “Roxanne Cheesman, the mother of Alan’s son. Who just shot himself in the head. Alan never asked for anything. He treated you with deference and you bribed so many people around you. ”
Barata replies: “What a tragedy, how sorry. I can’t answer now, I’ll call right away. ” Cheesman replies: “You have made us suffer two years. You will never imagine how much, but may God punish you and that you bear as much guilt as possible. I only ask that when Alan is dead you tell the truth. ”
That’s when Barata responds: “I will always tell the truth and I have the greatest admiration and respect for him. I’ve never talked about him because there was never anything to talk about and he knew about it. His enemies are others, not me. ”
“As a Public Ministry, the only thing I can indicate, if these private conversations are true, is that they demonstrate the Public Ministry’s thesis that the people linked to whom Alan García was living were trying to reach the effective collaborator Jorge Barata. It was precisely one of the foundations by which the court protected the detention of García Pérez ”he added José Domingo Pérez.
The prosecutor of the special team Lava Jato declared after participating in the raid and detention operation against the former regional governor of Lambayeque and former minister Yehude Simon, investigated for alleged money laundering and criminal organization for the Olmos case.
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