Peruvian police officer sentenced to five years in prison for charging €770 to drunk driver in Lima
A PNP subofficer was sentenced for accepting 3,000 soles to refrain from fining a driver stopped for driving under the influence in San Juan de Miraflores.
PNP subofficer sentenced for bribery in San Juan de Miraflores
A traffic officer with Peru's National Police (PNP) was sentenced to five years in prison for receiving 3,000 soles (approximately €770) from a driver who was stopped for driving under the influence in the district of San Juan de Miraflores, in Lima. This is reported by larazon.es, based on information published by the newspaper La República using data provided by the Public Prosecutor's Office.
The Judicial Power also imposed upon the officer five years of disqualification and civil damages of 9,000 soles (approximately €2,310), a figure that matches the amount requested by the Public Prosecutor's Office. The sentence thus combines a prison sentence, disqualification, and an obligation to pay money.
The condemned man is a first-class subofficer assigned to the San Juan de Miraflores police station. The Second Office of the Provincial Corporate Public Prosecutor's Office Specialising in Crimes of Corruption of Officials of South Lima attributed to him the crime of passive bribery proper in the exercise of police duty.
According to the fiscal investigation, the subofficer initially requested 4,000 soles (approximately €1,025) from the citizen who was stopped. In exchange, he offered him not to impose a fine, to avoid the cancellation of his driving licence, and to release the vehicle from seizure. The request for money was thus linked to circumventing the three measures that directly affected the driver and his vehicle.
Following that initial negotiation, the officer received 3,000 soles, a sum less than originally demanded. He was detained in flagrante delicto at the San Juan de Miraflores police station itself, within the framework of an operation directed by the provincial assistant prosecutors Jimmy Mansilla Castañeda and Efraín Rivasplata Mora.
To support the accusation, the Public Prosecutor's Office gathered documentation that made it possible to identify the police personnel involved. Among the elements incorporated into the file are recordings from surveillance cameras of the District Municipality of San Juan de Miraflores, records that the Public Prosecutor's Office used as central evidence in the case.
The procedure centres on the request and receipt of money in order to omit police action against the driver who was stopped for driving under the influence. For these acts, the Judicial Power set the penalties of imprisonment and disqualification, both of five years, together with civil damages of 9,000 soles established in the ruling.
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