Rafael Vela Barba | PJ orders temporary transfer of lawyer Rafael Vela to Lava Jato Special Committee | Ministry of Public | Latest | principle

Lima's First Constitutional Chamber ordered the temporary reinstatement of the lawyer Rafael Vela Barba In coordination Lava Jato Special Team and the Office of the Anti-Money Laundering Prosecutor.

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Magistrates Osvaldo Ordonez, Andrés Tapia and Luciano Cueva, who decided to grant this precautionary measure, suspended it for 8 months pending the decision of the Amparo process filed by Vela Barba against the National Control Commission of the Public Ministry. 15 days in 2020 to hear the judges who acquitted former presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori.

The magistrate warned that efficient collaborator Jaime Villanueva informed the prosecutor's office that his former boss, former National Prosecutor Patricia Benavides and Fernandez Geri, illegally conspired to remove him from his position through disciplinary action.

“Consequently, the actor has been provisionally reinstated as the Senior Prosecutor Coordinator of the Special Committee on Money Laundering and Disqualification before the suspension of disciplinary action is imposed. . or the position held at the time,” the document says.

The case of Lava Jato

Considered to be the largest case Corruption During Brazil's history it spread to many Latin American countries, including Peru. It all started in March 2014 when a money laundering operation was discovered at a car wash in Brasilia.

Petrobras, the Brazilian state oil company, was also found involved in the construction industry and other sectors.