The public hearing that addressed the case of the comic actor Alfredo Benavides concluded this Friday night. The Prosecutor’s Office requested 36 months of preventive detention for the artist after being investigated for acts of corruption and accused of belonging to a criminal organization led by former mayor Carlos Burgos. Nevertheless, Judge Jorge Chávez Tamariz granted the order of appearance with restrictions, among them an impediment to leave the country for 36 months and the payment of a deposit of 70 thousand soles.
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Alfredo Benavides’ lawyer files appeal
“I am filing appeals regarding the bond and the impediment to leave the country,” said Julio Gago, Alfredo Benavides’ lawyer.
Judge Jorge Chávez Tamariz ended the hearing
Judge Jorge Chávez Tamariz declared the following:
I declare founded in part the request for preventive detention filed by the representative of the Public Ministry against those investigated Alfredo Fernández, Samuel Roberto Alegre for the crime of money laundering due to the aggravating circumstance of belonging to a criminal organization to the detriment of the State. Consequently, I impose preventive detention against these investigated for a period of 36 months (…) I declare unfounded the request for preventive detention that the Public Ministry has requested against Percy Rodríguez, Alfredo Benavides Gastello and Cielito Augusto. The measure of appearance with restrictions is imposed with the following rules:
– Appear every 30 days for registration and biometric control with which it will be carried out provisionally through the virtual criminal control system of defendants, sentenced free approved by administrative resolution.
– Prohibition of communicating with their co-defendants included in the present criminal process.
– Prohibition of communicating with the organs of evidence, witnesses and experts. And that the Public Ministry to cite for the purposes of this investigation.
– Prohibition of making statements to the press, radio, or written communication media regarding the facts under investigation.
– Do not be absent from the town, address where you reside, unless it is with prior judicial authorization.
– Payment of the financial guarantee that must be executed within a period of 15 days once this resolution is consented or executed with a deposit in the Banco de la Nación.
– Not to be absent from the country, consequently I impose an impediment to leave the country for a period of 36 months only for the defendants Alfredo Benavides and Cielito Escalante.
Specify that the restrictions established in this adjudication are dictated under perception, in case of being breached, a preventive detention may be imposed and they may be placed in a penitentiary establishment. Finally, I impose an economic guarantee of 70 thousand soles against the defendants Alfredo Benavides and Cielito Escalante. Likewise, this guarantee constitutes for everyone it also constitutes a rule of conduct.
Alfredo Benavides receives income of 12 thousand soles per month
“What his lawyer said caught my attention: he generates income with high amounts and that is why he does not have the need to be immersed in such illicit acts. This artist has been working since 1989 and receives a sum of 12 thousand soles per month. In other words, the defense attorney indicates that he has a high income, he is constantly working, constantly making a transfer. Then he also has to impose a bond in accordance with his income, in accordance with this type of movement, “commented Magistrate Jorge Chávez Tamariz.
The guarantee here would also be 70,000 soles.
How long would be the time of privative sentence
“All the cases are by act of concealment and possession under the framework of a criminal organization, so the penalties always range between 10 and 20 years. The second budget is met for all,” said the judge.
The judge comments on the Alfredo Benavides case
“Walter yangali paid 500 thousand soles and Alfredo Benavides the same. However, before this court in his defense Benavides commented that he did not put a single sun on the sale. One thing is what he says and another is what appears in the document ( …) It is totally inconsistent. So far there is no binding element that the money with which he obtained that property has come from the convicted Carlos Burgos Horna. But this does not deny money laundering, the prosecution of the Public Ministry is not a generic money laundering, but is related to acts of corruption with precedents of Carlos Burgos Horna. Consequently, I must fit the elements according to what the Public Ministry builds, and if not, it will not fit serious suspicion “.
Currently, the sentence of the preventive detention measure against Alfredo Benavides Gastello and others for the crime of money laundering is being read.
In a few moments the last hearing of Alfredo Benavides begins
At 7:00 p.m. m begins the virtual hearing of the Seventh National Preparatory Investigation Court issued by the official Justice TV fanpage on Facebook, in which it will be revealed whether the comedian Alfredo Benavides will receive a sentence for this corruption case. Pay attention.
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What happened to Alfredo Benavides?
Alfredo Benavides could go to prison for a period of 36 months due to alleged links with the former mayor of San Juan de Lurigancho Carlos Burgos placeholder image Horna, prisoner for money laundering.
The former burger-master is in the Ancón I prison, after the Judicial Power found him guilty of the crimes of illicit enrichment. He would have bought real estate in the name of the humorist.
The proceeds would have been invested in the purchase of land and apartments in the cities of Trujillo, Lima and Huaral, with a value of 1,000,000 soles.
- Land in Huaral: Alfredo Benavides would have acquired, together with Mr. Walter Yangali de la Peña, a land of 500 hectares, located in the district of Sumbilca, Huaral, for the sum of one million soles, money that would have been provided by Mr. Carlos Burgos, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.
- Apartment in Miraflores: A luxury apartment valued at $ 400,000 and a $ 8,500 vehicle are also listed as the comedian’s property.
- Land in Trujillo: The witness in the case assured that Carlos Burgos acquired a property in the city of Trujillo for $ 600,000, which would also have registered it in the name of Alfredo Benavides.
What relationship did Alfredo Benavides have with Carlos Burgos?
According to the prosecutor Leidi Gálvez Sánchez, former burger-master Carlos Burgos would have acquired properties in the name of Alfredo Benavides.
“Such as the one located in the community of Sumvilca, province of Huaral, where it acquired 500 hectares together with Mr. Yangali de La Peña, money that was provided in its entirety by Mr. Carlos Burgos for the sum of one million soles”, he pointed.
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Who else is involved in the Money Laundering case?
According to the key witness in the case, his sister-in-law, Karin Janet Marengo Núñez, who is the wife of impersonator Jorge Benavides, is also involved. She is being investigated for, supposedly, taking a loan to buy a piece of land in Trujillo that would be in the name of the comedian.
“There have been some commercial relationships between them. As a result, through a loan of money that the wife of Jorge Benavides (Karin Marengo Núñez) would have made him (…) and with additional money, Carlos Burgos acquired a property in the city of Trujillo for 600,000 dollars, which also He would have registered it in the name of Alfredo Benavides, ”said the person.
What time is the public hearing of Alfredo Benavides?
The virtual hearing of the Seventh National Preparatory Investigation Court will take place this Friday, November 26, from 7:00 pm, on Facebook.
How and where to see the public hearing of Alfredo Benavides?
To see the last hearing of the Seventh National Preparatory Investigation Court where it will be known if Alfredo Benavides will receive a sentence for the money laundering case, you must enter the official fanpage of Justice TV on Facebook.
Alfredo Benavides: “I have never received a sun from Mr. Carlos Burgos”
Last Tuesday, November 23, Alfredo Benavides appeared with his lawyer at the preventive detention hearing. In his passing, he gave various information to prove his innocence and flatly denied having been linked to Carlos Burgo.
“At no time in this operation does Mr. Carlos Burgos appear; neither in the community of Sumbilca nor in the land that is mentioned nor in any delivery of money or with a bank. I have never received absolutely 1 sun from Mr. Carlos Burgos directly, indirectly, or in any way, “he said.
Alfredo Benavides testified at his hearing that he filed a death threat complaint
On November 23, at the last hearing of Alfredo Benavides, the comic actor revealed that he received death threats. “I have a complaint at Dinincri for a death threat and I had to leave my job at América TV when I was hired, and that channel can attest to that, a current contract and even a debt to the channel,” he said.
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