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On Sunday night, November 26, hours before the initial detention, Jaime VillanuevaPrincipal Adviser to the then Attorney General, Patricia BenavidesShe received a “surprising” message from her through the Signal application, through which she asked him to contact her “urgently”.
The former president said Villanueva immediately called her on a replacement cell phone Public Ministrywho identified himself as “Ven” in the above application.
According to the investigation Committee of Special Prosecutors Against Corruption (Eficcop), on the basis that “The Philosopher” was declared an efficient collaborator, Benavides Vargas warned him that he would be arrested, and that his house and office were going to be raided by a team led by senior prosecutor Marita Barretto. For this reason, he ordered the testimony “unseen.”
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The Advocate of the nation emphasized Villanueva To “hide” their cellphones, documents and “anything that might implicate them illegally”.
Likewise, he said he had to go to the San Pablo Clinic in Surco, while he met his most trusted staff on the 9th floor of the main headquarters. Public MinistryOn Abanque Avenue, in the heart of Lima.
He also told him to coordinate “anything” from that moment on with Miguel Jirau Isidro, one of the counsels of the now-suspended Supreme Prosecutor included in the investigation.
Villanueva, Jirav Isidro and Abel Hurtado Espinoza — members of Benavides’ inner circle — are being investigated for organized crime and other crimes. The criminal network – the disqualification of former Supreme Prosecutor Zoraida Avalos, the election of José Gutierrez as Ombudsman and the dismissal of members of the National Board of Justice (JNJ) – would have been headed by a former attorney. Nation.
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Cell phone change
After Benowitz warned that Efficab was coming for him, Villanueva made one last call from his iPhone 12 cell phone, destroying it. He went to Jirao, saying he was going to the San Pablo Clinic so as not to be at home during the test.
Jirau insisted that his phone and any documents he kept in his home “disappear”.
According to Barreto’s team’s investigation, after that communication ended, “The Philosopher” removed his chip from the iPhone 12 cell phone and placed it in another Samsung brand device, which belonged to his father. On that new cell phone he saved three contacts: Benowitz, “Van” (the alternate number for the then head of the Public Ministry) and Jirau, “Miki.”
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After that, Benavid ordered and Girao pointed out that he tampered with his cell phone equipment.
At 11:30 p.m. on Sunday, November 26, Villanueva called “Miggy” to inform him that he was already on his way to the health center and that his father was going to call him “under the pretext that he was his lawyer” and the arrival of Eficap and the police.
The Special Committee’s investigation also indicates that Vargas, the former prosecutor of the nation, “collaborated” with a doctor – Amador Vargas Guerra, who is the general manager of the San Pablo Clinic – the “hospital” of his former chief counsel. And thus their fear will be restrained.
However, emergency physicians diagnosed Villanueva with “lumbago with sciatica” and determined that he did not require further treatment.
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In parallel, on the 9th floor of the Public Ministry, Benavid, Girau and other advisers drafted a resolution to remove Pareto from the Eficap integration.
At 11:30 p.m., the National Prosecutor announced by mail the dismissal of the senior prosecutor, his home and his main offices of advisers with the intention of “blocking” his team from arresting Villanueva.
The newspaper contacted a representative of the San Pablo Clinic, but this person excused himself from providing statements.
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According to the Committee of Special Prosecutors Against Corruption in Power (Eficcop), Benavides’ criminal network “has instrumentalized the constitutional power of the monopoly of criminal prosecutions for private benefit.”
They also warned that the Attorney General – through Villanueva, Girao and Hurtado, two of his other advisers – had “unlawfully” influenced the decisions of Congress to “maintain public office” and be “the people’s protector”. State of the Criminal Organization.”
