Overview
- Monday's televised report published fiscal material that says the Ministerio Público opened a preparatory investigation into Maritza Manturano for alleged colusión agravada and organización criminal linked to 22 'locadores' hired by EMILIMA.
- Prosecutors cite audios and evidence from aspirantes a colaboradores eficaces, including a recording dated November 5, 2023, that they say shows Manturano instructing collaborators on what to declare to investigators.
- The fiscal thesis describes a money-routing chain that starts with provider Cinthya Cavero, passes through Yazmín Sevilla and others, and allegedly reached Manturano, according to case documents reported by multiple outlets.
- Manturano remains jefa del Gabinete de Asesores at the Ministerio de Defensa after being appointed by Rafael Belaunde Llosa and has acknowledged political and business ties to the minister while denying wrongdoing.
- Her defense says it will invoke the right to remain silent and calls the organization-criminal label artificial, a classification that legal experts say can allow the probe to stay open for many years and shape political scrutiny.