Overview
- Hugo Velásquez Zavaleta was convicted of specific passive bribery and sentenced to nine years and two months in prison with a seven‑and‑a‑half‑year ban from public office.
- Attorney Jorge Chombo Hernández received eight years in prison and a five‑year disqualification for the same offense in the case.
- The court ordered a joint civil reparation of S/ 80,000 to be paid to the Peruvian state by those convicted.
- Prosecutors alleged Velásquez sought the hiring of his brother Percy in the Callao court to speed a salary‑homologation process worth S/ 1,961,004 for thirteen supreme judges.
- Prosecutors from the special team reported these are their first convictions in the Los Cuellos Blancos del Puerto probe following a trial that opened in March.