The Peruvian judicial system has raided the facilities of the Villa Deportiva Nacional, where the national team trains, as part of an investigation into the president of the Peruvian Football Federation (FPF), Agustín Lozano.
He was in the context of an investigation for a crime of “criminal organization”, in which the equivalent of the “Chiqui” Tapia of our country would be involved.
Accompanied by dozens of police officers, the prosecutors entered the premises of the sports organization in search of documents that support the hypothesis of the Public Prosecutor, according to which Lozano, together with other sports managers, allegedly used the football federation to distribute money among professional teams to help them in the cancellation of their debts.
“The seizure of the documentation requested at the time and not delivered has been requested,” said prosecutor Jorge Chávez, coordinator of organized crime prosecutors. Extortion and coercion crimes are also investigated.
Agustín Lozano has not yet released any press statements at the moment.
The investigation began in mid-December 2022. Lozano has also been under investigation since September 2022 in another case of illicit enrichment, which allegedly occurred during his previous term as mayor of a municipality in northern Peru called Chongoyape, where he ruled for two terms between 2011 and 2018.
The state of the investigation
According to the local paper The Republicthe intervention was carried out because the PSF did not submit the documentation requested by the Public Prosecutor in good time at the beginning of February.
That medium specified that there is no arrest warrant against Lozano, who assumed the presidency of the FPF at the end of 2018.
Prosecutor Chávez Cotrina stressed that this “search is aimed at the documentary seizure to collect information from the accounting books between the years 2018 and 2022 required for the alleged crime of criminal organization, defrauding the legal person”.
In February, the national prosecutor had opened an investigation against Lozano and the rest of the members of his board of directors for the alleged commission of the crimes of extortion, coercion and criminal association against the professional clubs of the First Division of Lega 1.
This is why the national justice has ordered an accounting and financial expert opinion in the highest entity of Peruvian football since 2018, reported by La República.
In a statement they state that “the alleged criminal organization, in its criminal activities, would not have communicated the real administrative, economic and financial situation of the FPF to the members who make up its Base Assembly”.
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Source: Clarin
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