Peru: Vizcarra Released From Prison
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Peru: Vizcarra released from prison
Former Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra was released on Wednesday from his preventive detention as he was deemed to pose a flight risk regarding the charges against him of accepting bribes while he was governor of the Moquegua region (2011-2014).


The Supreme Court of Peru has ordered on Wednesday the immediate release of the former president of the country Martín Vizcarra (2018-2020), who has served a five-month sentence of pretrial detention since last August 13 in the framework of a case for passive bribery of his own, reports Europa Press. This has been decreed by the National Criminal Chamber of the Supreme when it considers that "unsubstantiated" the motivation for pretrial detentio…
A Peruvian court on Wednesday ordered the release of former Peruvian president Martín Vizcarra (2018-2020) by revoking the pretrial detention ordered to ensure his presence in the trial where he is accused of allegedly receiving millions of bribes when he was governor of the Moquergua region, before assuming the presidency of Peru.


LIMA (AP) — Peruvian justice ordered on Wednesday to release former President Martín Vizcarra (2018-2020) who was serving five months of pretrial detention while being tried for a case of alleged corruption when he was governor of a region in the south of the country in 2014.
The Third National Criminal Chamber of the Higher National Court of Specialized Criminal Justice declared the appeal filed by his defence well founded
Former Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra (2018-2020) was released this Thursday after three weeks in pretrial detention, a measure that was overturned yesterday by an appeals court, which determined that he must face outside the prison the final straight trial where he is accused of allegedly having received bribes when he served as governor [...] Peruvian former president Vizcarra's entry goes free was first published in Foco Informativa.
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