Overview

• Police captured Flor de María Maita this week more than two decades after a 2002 detention order and her 2003 designation as reo contumaz.
• Judge Edhin Campos Barranzuela granted nine months of prisión preventiva and ordered her placement in the Penal Anexo Mujer de Chorrillos.
• Prosecutors accuse her of cohecho pasivo específico and asociación ilícita linked to the Fujimori–Montesinos apparatus, alleging monthly S/2,500 payments from the SIN.
• The Fiscalía cites faxes attributed to Maita requesting payments, entries of her name in Vladimiro Montesinos’s agendas, and testimony from former SIN staff and drivers who say they delivered cash.
• Maita and her lawyer reject the charges, challenge the authenticity of the documents, invoke a claimed right to resistance, and request home-based processing due to health and age as prosecutors signal penalties of up to 20 years.