Mansions and Mercedes-Benz cars: the luxury of the “Eighth Councillor”, the alleged criminal network linked to “White Collars”

The criminal organization known as “The White Collars of the Port‘ would only be the tip of the iceberg. At the same time, according to information from the Public ministerother criminal networks have developed in recent years not only to corrupt the judicial system in the constitutional province of callaobut also to raise large sums by signing contracts with the State.

One of these criminal networks would be the so-called ‘Eighth Counselor‘, whose key man is said to be the textile businessman Mario Mendoza Diaz78, who was arrested – along with 12 other people investigated – last Thursday March 2, in a mega-operation deployed by the prosecution and the police.

The measures taken to dismantle the alleged criminal network linked to “Los Cuellos Blancos”, former magistrates Cesar Hinostroza there Walter Riosthey were to not only proceed to the provisional detention of Mendoza Díaz and the other members, but also to execute a judicial order of seizure with dispossession.

Jean Velasco Hidalgoprosecutor of Special team In the case of “Los Cuellos Blancos”, he explained that the seized items included two luxury properties valued at almost four and a half million dollars, in addition to five high-end vehicles of the famous Mercedes-Benz brand, d worth more than millions of dollars. of American currency.

“It involved the dispossession of two properties still awaiting execution, valued at almost four and a half million dollars and five high-end vehicles, of the Mercedes-Benz brand, valued at more than half a million dollars. of dollars. We are talking about a total of more than six million in favor of the state,” prosecutor Velasco told Canal N.

According to the thesis of the public prosecutor, the “macro organization” of ‘white collar workers‘ gave way to the ‘Eighth Counsellor’, one of his ‘nodal points’ who ended up going beyond mere corruption of the judiciary.

“One of the nodal points is presumed to be this gentleman businessman Mario Mendoza Diazuntil then it was only known that he had committed alleged crimes of bribery of officials, however, what has been established, at least at a preliminary level, is that he also had his own red criminal autonomously where there was a hierarchical type made up of his family and alleged front men,” he said.

According to the prosecutor, it was initially thought that Mendoza Díaz would have been involved only in crimes of Bribery there corruption to corrupt judges, but then they were caught contracting with the state, harming it and obtaining juicy illegal profits which then resulted in the acquisition of expensive real estate and cars, as well as other luxury goods.

Jorge Diaz Cabellospecial team coordinator for the case ‘The White Collars of the Port‘, reported that on January 31, the more than 63,000 audio recordings that were on hold to finish unraveling this criminal organization were completed.

“There criminal organization ‘Les Cols Blancs du Port’ is not only reduced, to what we first thought, to the Callao Superior Court of Justice or at most in the Supreme Court, there are other nodal points that have been developed and one of these basic and fundamental points that we have developed in this last stage, from my direction, is precisely the yesterday’s intervention that resulted in the arrest of 13 people, including Mario Mendoza Díaz,” prosecutor Díaz said.