Search of the house of businessman Mario Mendoza Díaz in San Borja. (Channel N)

Early this Thursday, members of the task force on the case ‘Port White Collar’ do one mega simultaneous input operation of goods, in which he provisionally detained around 13 people under investigation, including the textile businessman Mario Mendoza Diazaccused of being one of the key men in the alleged criminal organization.

Carmen Maria Serrano Gandulia, The businessman’s wife also intervened, according to information released by RPP News. Both were detained at their home in the San Borja neighborhood.

Mario Mendoza Díaz must serve a 10-day pretrial detention. His defense said he would appeal. The textile businessman has been investigated for money laundering.

The Provincial Prosecutor Jeans Velazco Hidalgo, from the Office of the Supraprovincial Specialized Prosecutor against Organized Crime, together with the special team of prosecutors for the case “Los Cuellos Blancos del Puerto” – Third Office were in charge of the procedure.

Parquet megaoperation
Parquet megaoperation

Subsequently, it was reported that Louis was arrested Alfonso López Ríos, for money laundering as a spokesman and criminal organization; Gastón Julio César Espejo Zavala and María Antonieta Jarufe Sabat, both for money laundering and criminal organization.

In addition to the arrest of the people investigated (13 in total), around twenty properties were searched in different districts of Lima and Callao. High-end vehicles were also seized and two properties were dispossessed.

It should be noted that the mega-operator of the pursuit occurs one day after National Council of Justice (JNJ) open an investigation against the National Prosecutor, Patricia Benavidesdue to changes to the white collar special teamwhich, according to the agency, is due to the existence of telephone communications that implicate it in the process.

The case white collar dates back to 2018, during the broadcast of a series of audios on acts of corruption between businessmen and personalities of the judiciary, in particular Walter Riosformer President of the Superior Court of Callao, and Cesar Hinostrozaformer fugitive Supreme Justice of Justice.

In the meantime, the national prosecutor considered that the investigation opened by the JNJ for alleged irregularities in the changes of White Collar Special Teamwhich investigates a network of corruption in the justice system, is an “act of intimidation and obstruction”.

The head of the public prosecutor’s office made a televised statement and called the decision of the JNJ, the body responsible for appointing, ratifying and dismissing Peruvian judges and prosecutors, “illegal and arbitrary”.

“I want to express to all citizens that the resolution of the JNJ is void, since (…) the White Collar Special Team It has not been dismantled, but, on the contrary, it has been strengthened,” he said. Benavides in his statement.

He added that this investigation “constitutes the consummation of the attacks” which allegedly began against him when he made the decision “to investigate political power”.

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