For this reason, he ordered the search of the properties of 23 people after declaring the request of the First Provincial Corporate Prosecutor’s Office Specialized in Corruption Crimes of Officials of Lima to be founded, according to a resolution accessed by El Comercio.
The measure was issued against Ledy Guadalupe Vela Ramírez, Rubiel Cristina Beraún Rojas, Fiorella Jannette Melgarejo Sánchez, Alicia Alexandra Camargo Leiva and Violeta Emperatriz Beas Oteroaccused friends of Jerí Oré and alleged beneficiaries of contracts and service orders.
It also includes Benito Roberto Villanueva (former presidential secretary general); Luis Álvaro Solorzano Yabar (former general undersecretary and current Chief of Staff of Advisors Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion); and Magali Meza Mundaca (General Office of Human Resources of the Ministry of Education).
Additionally, the operation reaches Hernán Piero Cuba García (former head of the Human Resources Office of the Presidential Office); Royer Azañero Álvarez (former head of the Chief of Staff of Advisors of the General Secretariat of the Presidential Office); and Yazmín Ivonne Meléndez Fiestas de Galdo (former member of the Administration Committee of the Assistance and Stimulus Fund of the Presidential Office) and others.
“Authorize the restrictive measure of search for evidence and restriction of search rights, which will include the home search (of interior environments and other closed rooms such as vehicles), with unlocking in case of refusal or absence of people in the real estate or personal property.”
In this case, those not authorized (people who are not senior officials) are investigated. However, due to the same events, former president José Jerí Oré is being investigated by the National Prosecutor’s Office.
The anti-corruption prosecutor’s office, headed by prosecutor Roxana Espinoza, is carrying out the investigation into the alleged crimes of incompatible negotiation and influence peddling, after it became known that the young women had visited the Government Palace during Jerí’s administration and, after that, received orders of service or were appointed to positions in the Presidential Office and the ministries of Production, Education and Environment, as well as Essalud.
Report from Cuarto Poder revealed that a total of five (5) young people met with President José Jerí and, days later, they obtained contracts in the State. Photo: Captura América TV.
The search measure – carried out early on Friday – includes a home and personal search, as well as the seizure of assets linked to the investigation.
The court also ordered the lifting of the secrecy of communications and telecommunications. This will allow the prosecution to carry out different procedures by viewing and extracting, as well as monitoring or recording (via reproduction, copying or transfer to another device), information or digital data (recorded or records of telephone, radio, internet or any other form of communication).
All of this in the seized species, such as mobile phones, tablets, computers, laptops, USBs, external drives, among others, as well as social networks linked to any technological device and other similar devices.
“The raid will ensure the preservation, seizure and securing of highly volatile digital evidence, especially WhatsApp messages, ‘once seen’ files, call histories, screenshots, deleted conversations, records of financial operations, as well as documents or supports that support the simulated ‘constitutional influence’ offered.”
Department of Ledy Guadalupe Vela, in San Isidro. The person investigated was not found in the property.
PJ indicates that there are elements about possible “direction” of José Jerí for hiring that is being investigated by the prosecutor’s office
According to the judicial document, the Public Ministry indicated that there had been actions and conduct that allowed the commission of acts by various officials with possible criminal connotations in the contracting. from the suppliers Ledy Guadalupe Vela Ramírez, Rubiel Cristina Beraún Rojas, Fiorella Jannette Melgarejo Sánchez, Alicia Alexandra Camargo Leiva and Violeta Emperatriz Beas Otero.
After analyzing the facts presented by the prosecution, the Preparatory Investigation Court considered that “they are based on a pattern of directing hiring and appointments.”, whose materialization would have occurred through informal coordination, digital communications, file exchange and electronic records.
“In that sense, there are reasonable indications that in the homes and spaces under the control of those investigated there are assets, electronic devices, physical and digital documentation, as well as communication records, such as instant messaging, emails, call histories, digital files, preliminary versions of documents and other relevant information, which would allow proving the existence of prior coordination, functional addressing and links between the participants.”
For this reason, it was considered “reasonable” to consider that those investigated have relevant things and also that the elements of conviction would evidence “facts that appear criminal (direction in favor of the hiring of those investigated and participation in the hiring).”
He pointed out that it was justified to authorize the search, personal and home search and seizure measures because criminal assets or things relevant to the investigation could be found there, such as documents, cellular equipment, notes or various assets that would allow us to know if they were unduly interested in the hiring of the investigated Vela Ramírez, Beraún Rojas, Beas Otero, Melgarejo Sánchez, and Camargo Leyva, “which would have occurred as a result of the alleged direction or intervention of Jerí Oré.”
“This is a set of actions that do not have an isolated or autonomous value, but, on the contrary, grouped together they represent a set of behaviors that, in a concatenated manner, would denote an undue interest and common decision to achieve the hiring of Vela Ramírez, Beraún Rojas, Beas Otero, Melgarejo Sánchez, and Camargo Leyva (it is verified that the hiring of those investigated are preceded by visits made to Jerí Oré as President of the Republic (…)”, he specified.
Department of Fiorella Melgarejo, at Belisario Flores 211, Lince. (Photos: Joel Alonzo/ @photo.gec)
The PJ concluded that the search and seizure seeks to prevent the information collected from being altered or deleted.
“In this way, the Public Ministry will be able to raid and register each of the properties described and seize everything related to the alleged commission of the crime of incompatible negotiation, in accordance with the factual framework referring to the hiring of those investigated, during the end of 2025 and beginning of 2026, which will allow the alleged illicit acts to be clarified,” the court indicated.
Officials “would have intervened” in contracts and appointments “in favor of certain people”
According to the judicial document, the prosecutor’s request maintains that several defendants had committed the alleged crime of incompatible negotiation, provided for in article 399 of the Penal Code.
According to the fiscal thesis, the court notes, “a systematic pattern of directing public contracts and functional appointments” would have been deployed in different entities of the State (ministries of Production, Environment and Education, as well as the Presidential Office and EsSalud).
“From the analysis of the elements of conviction collected, it is noted that those investigated, in the exercise of their functions, had repeatedly intervened in hiring and appointment processes, improperly directing such decisions in favor of certain people, through the issuance of requirements, preparation of terms of reference, validation of profiles, granting of conformities, processing of payments and formalization of administrative acts.”
The fiscal elements were admitted by the judiciary to authorize the measure of search, seizure and lifting of the secrecy of communications.
They raid properties of people linked to José Jerí
On February 17, José Jerí leaves the Government Palace after censure by Congress.
Ricardo Caldas, Jerí Oré’s lawyer, rejected the mention of his client in the resolution ordering the search.
He maintained that he does not know the content of the judicial document, but considered that there should not be a statement on the merits of an ongoing investigation.
He stressed that Jerí is not included in the tax file where the raids were ordered. His sponsor, he later confirmed, has been investigated for these events before the Attorney General’s Office.
“Apart from the fact that we do not participate in this investigation, because my client is not investigated in this tax file, but I am surprised by a measure of this type, such a large deployment of personal, economic and effort resources, when I believe that the country has more serious problems.”
The lawyer considered that alleged incompatible negotiation is being investigated, which is a crime that has a procedural procedure and it is not customary to carry out raids.
He said that as a lawyer, along with his client, they respect and trust the Public Ministry and, along those lines, they have collaborated with the investigations.
However, he insisted that he is surprised that the Provincial Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office that carried out the raid, requests or carries out this type of action in the face of a crime of incompatible negotiation when this – he said – is documented in a documentary manner.
For this reason, he described it as “strange” that said tax office carries out the diligence in the current situation and did not rule out that it has “an interest other than just clarifying the truth.”
“My client and I, as a defense, trust in the institution of the Public Ministry and its authorities, but we do not fully agree and we are very struck by the behavior of some offices in a specific manner, such as the office that has carried out this search measure. What did they intend to do with all this intervention, what did they intend to find that they no longer had?” he questioned.
Finally, he specified that his client has already testified before the Attorney General’s Office about these events in the investigation being followed for the alleged crime of influence peddling.
In addition, he indicated that the lifting of communications and banking secrecy has been requested in another investigation being followed by the Attorney General’s Office for unregistered meetings with Chinese businessmen Zhihua Yang and Ji Wu Xiaodong.
He indicated that his sponsor does not oppose the measures requested by the FN, as long as they are objective.
Proof of this, said Caldas Fernández, is that the bank secrecy has already been lifted within the investigation being carried out against Jerí Oré for the alleged crime of illicit enrichment.
“What proportionality would it be to request that when how many months have already passed? In the tax file where my client is investigated, the majority of the people who had the raid today (Friday) have participated as witnesses and have testified and said that they have not had communication with my client (…) The provincial prosecutor’s office, that office is carrying out actions that for us violate the rights of those investigated and of my client, because my client is not listed as being investigated there, but everything they are doing there will have an impact on him. And They mention it, what option do we have to defend ourselves there, none,” added the lawyer.
