By Graciela Villasís and Giovanna Castañeda
Research unit
The fiscal Geovana Mori yesterday asked the Judiciary for a 36-month remand order against the former first lady Nadine Heredia, as part of the investigation that is being followed for the alleged illegal acts that it would have committed within the process of granting the project south peruvian gas pipeline (GSP), awarded to Odebrecht.
The fiscal request also reaches Luis Miguel Castilla Rubio Y Eleodoro Mayorga Alba, who were ministers of Economy and Finance and Energy and Mines, respectively, in the government of Ollanta Humala.
“Before the development of this procedure, the prosecutor Geovana Mori had already formalized a preparatory investigation and, according to what I have been informed, today [ayer, la fiscal Mori] has presented a request for preventive detention against Nadine Heredia, Luis Castilla and Eleodoro Mayorga for the purposes of procedural assurance”, Announced last night the coordinator of the special team of the prosecution for the Lava Jato Case, Rafael Vela, from Curitiba, in Brazil.
“I certainly do not know the contents of the documents. They have already been presented to the Judiciary and we hope that the corresponding hearings will take place and that the requests from the Public Ministry will be protected.“He added.
When asked if Mori’s request is related to the information obtained in Tuesday’s interrogation of Rodney Carvalho, former executive director of the South Peruvian Gas PipelineVela replied that “not necessarily” “All the information that is produced day by day must be incorporated accordingly and will also be evaluated in due course“He added.
Last Tuesday, Carvalho told Peruvian prosecutors that five days before the winning consortium of the concession was officially chosen, announced on June 30, 2014, Odebrecht I was already certain that I would win that tender with Enagás. In addition, he assured that he was meeting with former minister Mayorga to coordinate issues about the gas pipeline when the tender had not yet been given.
A few weeks ago, Mori ordered the formalization of a preparatory investigation for Heredia, Castilla y Mayorga, and for other former ministers and former officials of Humala’s administration.
In the investigation for allegedly favoring Odebrecht In the GSP concession process, which was awarded to the Brazilian company in 2014 for more than US $ 7 billion, Mori imputes to Heredia, Castilla y Mayorga the crimes of illicit association to commit crimes and aggravated collusion.
According to the fiscal hypothesis, Heredia acted as a “de facto official” to favor Odebrecht in the millionaire project. For this, she allegedly headed with her husband a criminal organization entrenched in the Central Government.
Meanwhile, for Mori, former ministers Castilla and Mayorga would have had the role of promoting favorable conditions for the Brazilian construction company to win the good bid.
According to the prosecution, both “would have formed part of the collusive agreement[with[conOdebrecht]to the detriment of the assets of the State ”. In this way, the former ministers are included by the Public Ministry in the second level of the structure that operated from the Government Palace for the benefit of Odebrecht.
Regarding Mayorga, the role that the prosecution organizes is that, as a minister and as part of the Pro Inversión board of directors, he promoted efforts in favor of certain contracts “being developed in accordance with the achievement of the organization’s objectives.”
Regarding Castilla, for the prosecution it was an “arm within the functional level of the criminal organization led by Heredia” that would have facilitated Odebrecht’s winning the project. ” For the Mori prosecutor, the former minister had “interference and concrete interest.”
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“I express my outrage at the abuse of an unsubstantiated remand order”Replied Wilfredo Pedraza, attorney for Nadine Heredia, to Trade.
The defense noted that in this case “there are speculations, statements from unverified collaborators and irrelevant information.” She denied that there is a procedural danger to her sponsored.
“What was announced by the prosecutor Vela from Curitiba only shows the intention to respond to the media pressures that have been asking for this measure. I hope that the Judiciary will not give in to the pressure“He concluded.
Meanwhile, Castilla told this newspaper that “drank in amazement” the request. “I submit to justice and ask the judges to make the best decision that complies with the law. Who does not owe it does not fear it“, Held.
He added that he was surprised that it was only against him and Mayorga: “If a [ex]The minister is embracing effective collaboration, he will have to be tried for the crimes he has committed and the claims must be corroborated. “
This newspaper tried to communicate with Mayorga, through calls and messages. Until the closing of this edition we had no response.
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