The National Police (PNP) captured on Thursday one of the most wanted hitmen in the country, known as ‘the Italian’, linked to several high -profile crimes, including the murder of the former congressman Óscar treesoccurred in January this year.
The Division of Research against Organized Crime (Dirincri) carried out the capture in the city of Desaguadero that marks the border of Peru with Bolivia, according to an office broadcast on its X account (formerly Twitter).
In addition to the murder of the former leder, perpetrated at the crossroads of university avenues with Camino Real of the Lima district of Carabayllothe police institution attributes the authorship of the crime of singer Paul Flores, former member of the Musical group Harmony 10.
After being extradited from the United States in 2006, Medelius was sentenced in 2008 to eight years in prison for having participated in a massive falsification of signatures for registration, in 2000, of the Vamos neighboring group, a member of the Peru 2009 coalition.
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According to the investigations, the massive falsification of signatures was ordered by the presidential exassor Vladimiro Montesinos, with the aim of starting the campaign that allowed the second re -election of the ex -dictator Alberto Fujimori, in the year 2000.
Medelius was also captured in one of the so -called ‘vladivideos’, homemade recordings made by Montesinos, in which he is seen receiving money from the presidential ex -as.
In development.
