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A woman identified as Lesli Rivas Calle was intervened yesterday for having made an alleged adjustment to the effective collaborator Karelim Lopez.
Around 11 am, the investigated businesswoman informed her lawyer César Pérez that she had detected irregular surveillance in the area behind her home, located in the Oxapampa jirón, in Breña.
When approached, Rivas Calle avoided identifying herself and denied being a member of the National Police of Peru (PNP).
Trade He had access to images in which López is observed rebuking the undercover agent.
“I want you to say what they have sent you for. […] They give me security, they do not make adjustments. I want to know who you are. Are you a policeman or are you not a policeman?insistently asks the investigated businesswoman to the non-commissioned officer, who remained silent.
In another video it can be seen that the same person is approached by López’s lawyer. However, Rivas Calle repeatedly denies belonging to the aforementioned institution.
Minutes later, the woman was taken to the Breña police station where she finally acknowledged being a member of the PNP’s Money Laundering Counterintelligence.
Consulted regarding these facts, the lawyer César Pérez pointed out that what happened is an irregular act.
“It attracts attention and worries, that is why we are denouncing it before the Breña police station. We understand the work of the police. However, what we do not understand is that it is being recorded even with the complacency of the police officers in charge of Karelim López’s custody.”He told this newspaper.
“The person intervened from the first moment denied being a police officer and did not want to identify himself.”
The lawyer César Nakazaki, who leads the team that defends López, reported what happened through his social networks and described the event as “a new case of misuse of the police”.
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After detecting the presence of the undercover agent, Karelim López and the lawyer Pérez reported this fact to the coordinator of the Special Team of Prosecutors once morest the Corruption of Power, Marita Barreto.
For this reason, two members of the aforementioned group arrived at the Breña police station to take minutes of what happened.
The diligence in that police station lasted more than two hours and was also attended by López, non-commissioned officer Lesli Rivas and PNP authorities, including the head of the Money Laundering Investigation Division, General Johnny Veliz, who ruled out that what happened was an adjustment.
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After the activities at the police station, General Veliz specified that since March 1, by fiscal provision, there are police personnel assigned to comply with the protection measures for the effective collaborator. These actions have been reinforced as a result of the threat that López received a few days ago.
“What happened is that the service [de seguridad] has been reinforced by intelligence agents. The increase [de policías] it is given to control the home and also to verify the services [de protección]”Veliz pointed out.
At another time, he remarked that López and his legal defense were aware of these new measures, since – he reported – they had had previous meetings with them.
“The services and the surroundings of the house have been verified. Photos have been taken, but to the service personnel because it is an open service, it is not reserved”said the PNP general.
Finally, he stated that the facts were just a misunderstanding.
On July 11, the effective collaborator Karelim López also reported having received an envelope at her home, which contained three bullet casings and a death threat message.
