Prosecutor’s Office of Peru raided the headquarters this Thursday Peruvian Football Federation (FPF) collect documents in ongoing investigation into alleged corruption against the board of directors Augustine Lozano.
Similarly, more than US$6 million worth of assets were confiscated, which is the result of fraud and corruption offenses by officials.
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Entrance to National Sports Village of Lima (Wieden) remains under the protection of numerous police officers who arrived at the scene to protect a team of prosecutors that penetrated the territory of the FPF, according to local media.
Intervention started around 08:00 local time upon request Third Specialized Corporate Supra-Provincial Organized Crime Attorney.
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The prosecutor’s office and the police entered the directors’ offices to collect documents after requesting but not receiving a response on February 8, provision of economic and banking information submit it for “accounting and financial expertise”, detailed information.
⚠️ ATTENTION! Under the protection of the National Police of Peru, this is what the Videna FPF 🧐 looks like after the National Prosecutor’s Office entered to investigate the Office presided over by Agustín Lozano. pic.twitter.com/yHkQmPz1t8
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For this reason, the prosecutor Jorge Chavez Cotrina national coordinator Specialized Prosecutors for Combating Organized Crime, confirmed that the search had been carried out in order for the agency in charge of the case to “remove the documentation that was requested at the time.”
Alleged criminal organization operating in @TuFPF which will be headed by Agustín Lozano and will be dedicated to committing crimes of extortion, coercion to the detriment of first division clubs.
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“The authorities of La Videna never paid attention to these demands, Therefore, the prosecutor was obliged demand from the preliminary investigation judge to conduct a search in order to seize documents, This is exactly what is happening,” he said. Chavez to the station Radio Ovation.
He added that the raid “It’ll take as long as it takes and that the prosecutor establishes the possibility of seizing the necessary documentation”, but there is no “arrest warrant for anyone”.
The prosecutor’s office opened in February last year investigation into Lozano and his board members for the intended commission of crimes of extortion, coercion and criminal organization to the detriment clubs of the first national division.
In this sense, he believes that “a suspected criminal organization that could gain a foothold in the FPF” and that “in their criminal activities would not report the real administrative, economic, accounting and financial situation to the members constituting its assembly of bases.”
Besides that the leaders “They would give away to some professional football clubs, first and second divisions, as well as departmental football clubs, various amounts of money to pay off their obligations and debts“.
At the end of September last year, the prosecutor’s office also organized another investigation against Lozano for the crime of illicit enrichment when I was Mayor of Chongoyape District, in the northern province of Chiclayo (2011-2018).
The prosecution stated that Lozano is under investigation for allegedly increasing his fortune in a suspicious and unfounded way. and that “he would try to cover up” these alleged actions by “using his family and circle” of friends.
Lozano became President of the FPF in December 2018.after the arrest of his predecessor, Edwin Oviedowho was sentenced to prison for corruptionn, and in 2021 he was re-elected for the period 2021-2025.
In recent months he has starred in confrontation with the leaders of various teams of the first division, among them the reigning two-time champion Lima Alliance, for the rights to television broadcasting of the matches of the Peruvian League 1.
(According to information from EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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