Lima.- President Ollanta Humala’s wife is in the eye of the storm for $215,000 she received as income between 2006 and 2009
A Peruvian prosecutor has opened a preliminary investigation into alleged money laundering charges against Nadine Heredia, the wife of Peruvian President Ollanta Humala, and her brother, Ilan Heredia, Peru’s acting attorney general, Pablo Sánchez, confirmed.
“This is a complaint filed by a person before the Prosecutor’s Office for Money Laundering. It is a complaint that deserves a review and, in this specific case, the prosecutor has opened a preliminary investigation to see if what he says is true or not,” Sánchez told the radio station Radio San Borja.
The attorney general, who is serving as interim for six months, added that such investigations follow the regular procedure and do not go through his office, but rather “directly through the competent prosecutor’s office.”
The newspaper Correo reported on Sunday that the First Prosecutor’s Office, headed by prosecutor Ricardo Rojas León, opened a preliminary investigation in this case for a period of 180 days for an alleged transfer of powers to manage a bank account in Heredia, as well as money deposits made between 2006 and 2008.
Prosecutor Sánchez stressed that his institution will not accept interference or pressure of any kind during this preliminary investigation and said that he has given instructions to “work objectively, in accordance with the law and the Constitution.”
“We will not accept interference or pressure of any kind from anyone. Our investigations are objective; if there is evidence, fine; if there is no evidence, no (reporting) is done,” he concluded.
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2024-08-19 15:49:44
