Peru Libre leader’s mother’s accounts are frozen for alleged money laundering

The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) three bank accounts frozen at Bertha Rojas, Mother of the Secretary General of Peru Libre, Vladimir Cerrón, in the context of an investigation into money laundering by the Public Prosecutor for allegedly illegal funding of this faction’s election campaign.

The freeze took place last Friday, October 1, and involves two mutual fund accounts in Banco de Crédito’s Financiera Credicorp Capital, holding 385,535 soles and $ 235,554. In addition, there is an account in the National Bankwhere it registered more than 100,000 soles.

The total amounts in the three accounts amount to over 1,400,000 soles.

As distributed on Sunday panorama, Vladimir Cerrón’s mother made money movements on mutual fund accounts.

In this context, the FIU pointed out that the retired teacher’s income would not justify the deposit in the banks. The origin of the money is not known; However, cash payments were made regularly to both investment fund accounts.

FIU investigation

According to Sunday, the investigation carried out by the FIU on the movements in the accounts of Bertha Rojas It started with a withdrawal he made on November 16, 2020. A total of 284,000 soles that were later used at the National Bank as payment for Vladimir Cerrón’s civil reparation.

In order to withdraw from the mutual fund’s accounts, the bank had him fill out a form with a larger amount, a document stating that he was doing an educational job and that the money came from his savings for 30 years.

However, the UIF was able to determine that since 2010, when Vladimir Cerrón became regional governor of June.

In addition, it was found that one month after the Secretary General of Peru Libre paid civil damages, the same amount was transferred to his mutual fund account on December 24 of the same year. In addition, on April 30, 2021, 40,000 more Soles were paid in the middle of the election process.

Even so, Rojas ruled out any irregularities in the management of these accounts and in the origin of the money. As she pointed out on Sunday, those funds would have been generated between her pension and that of her husband along with the royalties her books would have.

On September 10th, the public prosecutor’s office shut in Bertha Rojas in the money laundering proceedings for alleged illegal funding of the Peru Libre party. According to the thesis of public prosecutor Richard Rojas, the former teacher is said to have been the front man for her sons Vladimir and Waldemar Cerrón.

“Bertha Rojas López, who would have played an alleged front man role in relation to the illegal profits of her sons Vladimir Cerrón Rojas and Waldemar Cerrón Rojas, members of the criminal organization established within the national political party Free Peru, as well as for the acquisition of movable and immovable property, which they would have acquired with money tainted from them, ”the public prosecutor said in his decision.