Peruvian ambassador to Venezuela to be barred from leaving Perú because of alleged money laundering

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – According to local newspaper La República, the Peruvian Special Prosecutor’s Office for Money Laundering has issued this request so that Rojas García -recently appointed ambassador in Caracas- does not travel to Venezuela, which could affect the ongoing investigation of the organization known as Los Dinámicos del Centro (The Dynamics of the Center).

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“Rojas Garcia, despite not being an official or public servant of the General Directorate of Transport and Communications of (department of) Junin, would have collaborated or participated in the promotion, placement, removal and favoring of several people so that they would benefit from jobs,” said the prosecutor specialized in money laundering Richard Rojas Gomez in mid-December last year, when he included the leader of the ruling party, Peru Libre, in the investigation.

Therefore, the Prosecutor’s Office maintains that Rojas García was in charge of withdrawing the money to deliver it to the leader of the party, Vladimir Cerrón.

Specifically, last July, the new ambassador in Venezuela would have tried to withdraw more than 376,000 soles -more than USD 85,000- in the name of Cerrón, the blocking of the accounts in charge of the Financial Intelligence Unit of Peru prevented it, according to a report by El Comercio.

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