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Court Convicts Lima Commander and Three Officers for Extorting Detained Citizen

A second-instance ruling overturned an earlier acquittal, imposing prison terms, loss of police ranks, five years of disqualification plus a joint S/18,000 reparations order.

Condenan a exjefe del Depincri y tres policías por amenazar con 'sembrar droga' y exigir S/2.500 a ciudadano
Condenan a comandante y tres policías por exigir S/ 2500 a ciudadano detenido arbitrariamente.

Overview

  • The Poder Judicial’s appellate decision found comandante Ricardo Enrique Vargas Contreras and subofficers Leo Santos Catunta Marín, Edwar Leoncio Concha Sarango and Alexander Ricardo Ayma Cornejo guilty of cohecho pasivo propio.
  • Each officer was sentenced to nine years and four months in prison and ordered to pay S/18,000 jointly to the State, with five years of disqualification and loss of their police ranks.
  • Prosecutors built the case with a cooperating witness’s testimony, graphotechnical handwriting reports, call and WhatsApp records, and banknotes with chemical reagents found inside a police desk.
  • The underlying abuse took place on April 12, 2024, when agents from Depincri Cercado’s Grupo B allegedly detained a citizen without registering him, beat him and demanded money while threatening to plant drugs.
  • The Tercera Fiscalía Superior’s second‑instance appeal, argued by fiscal adjunto Juan Manuel Pilares Luna, directly reversed the initial acquittal to secure convictions without ordering a new oral trial.