The 37 -year -old Peruvian Erik Cuaresma Azartewould lead one criminal organization I sent illegal gold to destinations like United Arab Emirates o Hong Kong. He Public Ministry He investigated it for three years and was arrested on April 24.
According to Hildebrandt in his thirteenexported gold bullion valued at more than 13 million dollars. On April 24, the staff of Customs seized 22 kilos of gold In a warehouse in the port of Callao, when you are ready to be sent to Persian Gulf
The organization was dismantled thanks to the infiltration of a special agent and reports of suspicious operations deliveries by the PERU FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT (FIU).
Organized Crime Prosecutor Álvaro Rodas was already investigating in the case for three years, when the inquiries began. The indications, the weekly indicates, pointed out the participation of illegal mining.
Therefore, he opened an money laundering file and focused on the shipments of the nine companies that Lenten had created through testaferros. He opened a file for money laundering that focused on the exports of the nine companies that Lenten had created using alleged testaferros. Next to the DiviacRodas analyzed details of 25 gold exports of this network.
Hildebrant in his thirteen He maintains that this network achieved its mission through nine companies connected through Erik Lent and its alleged testaferros.
According to the special agent infiltrated in the network, the illegal gold It came from illegal mining areas in Juliaca, Nasca, Abancay, Trujillo, Arequipa and Madre de Dios. The export companies, confirmed to the Prosecutor’s Officethey were loved in the Mining Formalization Integral (Reinfo) to “give appearance of legality” to the activity.
After taking it out, the metal was transferred for processing to different plants that have not yet been identified. Then, more details of the process could be known through the follow -up to Verónica Pacheco Castillo, 48.
On November 14, 2023, the detectives of the High complexity crimes investigation division (Diviac) They determined that the woman took a bus from Juliaca to Loma, where she stayed at a Lince hotel. During the journey he had with him a briefcase, which he delivered on the same day Lentesma in the vicinity of the establishment where he stayed.
The PNP He suspects that Pacheco transported gold bullion, required the medium, since in those days the network to which he belonged prepared a shipment to Arab Emirates.
In December 2023, Verónica was arrested by the Police After attracting attention for his nervous attitude In a bus terminal, in Cañete. At the police station they found 12 gunded gold bars in a girdle attached to the body.
However, despite the Judicial Branch He ordered preventive detention, months later he was released. The Public Ministry also identified three foreign companies as alleged gold buyers: Amkay Asia Limitedby Hong Kong; in addition to Icon Gold Jewellery y Smart Gold Trading DMCCof the United Arab Emirates.
Asia Limited had an intermediary in Peru, the Hindu citizen Shinde Rohan SurendeR, who arrived from 2023 to spend long days housed in a department of Miraflores.
The Public Ministry has the thesis that this man had the function of evaluating the purity of the gold of Lent. In the case of being formed with the result, it was communicated to its employers who authorized the purchase. The subject managed to leave the country before being arrested.
Related news :