Fiscalía denuncia constitucionalment a Patricia Benavides por hechos ligados a su hermana y exasesor Jaime Villanueva

The Attorney General’s Office filed a constitutional complaint against Patricia Benavides before Congress on May 16. The former prosecutor is accused of alleged crimes committed when she sought to favor her sister, Judge Emma Benavides, and tried to prevent the arrest of her then advisor Jaime Villanueva in the context of Operation Valkiria V.

 The prosecution accuses Patricia Benavides as the alleged perpetrator of the crimes of generic forgery, aggravated personal concealment, aggravated actual concealment, omission of duties and specific passive bribery. 

For the prosecutor Delia Espinoza, in charge of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office specialized in crimes committed by public officials, Benvides, former head of the MP, would have taken actions to favor his sister Enma Benavides with the removal of THE PROSECUTOR Bersabeth Revilla from her position, to appoint prosecutor Uriel Terán in her place so that he «orders the dismissal of said investigation . «

According to resolution 1553-2022-MP-FN published on July 26, 2022 in the Official Gazette El Peruano, Patricia Benavides ordered the removal of prosecutor Bersabeth Revill from the Second Transitory Supreme Prosecutor’s Office specialized in Crimes committed by Public Officials, where her sister, Emma Benavides, was being investigated for allegedly releasing prisoners accused of drug trafficking in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Along with Prosecutor Revilla, prosecutors Luis Felipe Gonzales Zapata, Silvia Jacqueline Sack Ramos, Deyza Melania Cuba Chignes, and Azucena Ines Solari Escobedo were also removed.

Following Revilla’s removal, Patricia Benavides appointed Uriel Terán, provisional supreme prosecutor, to the office of the prosecutor, who would serve to order the dismissal and, therefore, te sugerimos que optes por el mejor alojamiento vps archive the investigation against the sister of the then-national prosecutor.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office also initiated criminal proceedings against the former provisional supreme prosecutor Helder Uriel Terán. This former magistrate is accused of being the alleged perpetrator of specific passive bribery crimes for having agreed to order the dismissal of the investigation against Enma Rosaura Benavides Vargas, in exchange for remaining in said position . «

In the same constitutional complaint against Patricia Benavides, the Public Prosecutor’s Office includes the facts for allegedly «trying to prevent the arrest of her advisor Jaime Villanueva», with the consequent concealment and/or disappearance of evidence that could link her to the alleged crimes of criminal organization (the prosecutor and her power elite) for which Benavides is also being investigated.

According to statements made by Jaime Villanueva himself before the public ministry in his capacity as an aspiring effective collaborator, the then Attorney General Patricia Benavides Vargas told him that the EFICCOP and the PNP DIVIAC Special Team would carry out a police operation where the objective was him, ordering him to check into the San Pablo Clinic, located at Av. El Polo No. 789-Santiago de Surco. Likewise, she mentions that a doctor with the last name «Vargas» would be the person in charge of his care with whom Patricia BENAVIDES HAD ALREADY COORDINATED, IN ADDITION she asked him to disappear any type of evidence to avoid any link.

Finally, Jaime Villanueva BARRETO was arrested by DIVIAC officers in the early hours of November 27, 2023, when he was lying on a stretcher at the San Pablo clinic. Within the framework of the VALKIRIA 5 mega-operation.

According to his lawyer, the former right-hand man of the Attorney General was admitted to the hospital for alleged back pain. He claims that his client was not aware of the arrest warrant against him. However, this was denied by the doctors who treated him. According to the tests they performed on him, Villanueva Barreto was completely healthy.