The Justice of Peru has suspended the search and capture order that fell on the leader of Peru Libre, Vladimir Cerrón, in the framework of several judicial cases, including the alleged illegal financing of the party's electoral campaigns in 2008 and 2021.
"Given the new procedural condition of the accused, it is ordered to issue the corresponding notices, so that the police authority ceases its search, location, and capture of the investigated Vladimir Roy Cerrón Rojas, as he is linked to the process of the case in freedom," ruled Judge Leodan Cristóbal Ayala, in a document collected by the Peruvian broadcaster RPP.
With this resolution, the magistrate orders the Police to end the proceedings to locate Cerrón —a fugitive since October 2023— after he was granted provisional freedom subject to precautionary measures. Among these restrictions are the prohibition of leaving the country for more than a year, the obligation to appear every 30 days before the Prosecutor's Office, and the payment of 30,000 soles (7,654 euros).
The Constitutional Court of Peru annulled last July the preventive detention of 24 months that weighed on the politician, considering the "habeas corpus" appeal filed by his defense. The high court considered that the judges who ordered his imprisonment did not sufficiently justify that measure, although it specified that this decision does not imply the cancellation of the open cases against the accused.
In one of them, Cerrón appears as a presumed member of the criminal network called "Los Dinámicos del Centro," through which licenses and driving permits were allegedly issued irregularly in exchange for bribes, in addition to requiring financial contributions from officials of the regional government of Junín to keep their positions in the administration.
In October 2023, he was also sentenced to three and a half years in prison for another corruption case linked to the construction of an airport in Junín, during his time as regional governor, a case from which he was later acquitted. Despite this, Cerrón continues to be investigated for alleged crimes of criminal organization and money laundering in several proceedings that cover the period from 2008 to 2021.