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The Prime Minister of Peru, Guido Bellido, and the leader of the main government party, Vladimir Cerrón, have been indicted by the Prosecutor's Office for alleged money laundering in the financing of Peru Libre, a Marxist political formation with which Pedro Castillo won the elections presidential.

In addition to Bellido and Cerrón,

15 other people

were also included

,

including Waldermar Cerrón, Vladimir's brother who was recently appointed spokesperson for the Peru Libre parliamentary group in Congress, where he is the largest bench with 37 parliamentarians.

The three members of Peru Libre were included by prosecutor Richard Rojas in the investigation of the case called "Los dynamicos del centro", which investigates the alleged illegal financing of the party through

illegal charges

made by officials of the regional government of the central Andean department of Junín.

According to the prosecutor's resolution, released by various national media, Vladimir Cerrón allegedly

He led a network of illegal charges to

finance electoral campaigns

and pay compensation for his current corruption conviction that prevented him from being his party's presidential candidate.

In the cases of Bellido and Waldemar Cerrón, they were supposedly some of the

beneficiaries

of that money used in the last electoral campaign, where they were elected congressmen for the regions of Cusco and Junín, respectively.

Additionally, Bellido is also accused of

alleged apology for terrorism

by having paid tribute on social networks to Edith Lagos, one of the best-known faces of the first bloody and terrorist actions of the Maoist guerrilla Sendero Luminoso, at the beginning of the 80s.

The Peruvian Prosecutor's Office has considered that the case of "The dynamics of the center" passes from Junín to the capital Lima so that the Supraprovincial Corporate Prosecutor's Office Specialized in Crimes of Corruption of Officials, whose head is the prosecutor Vanessa Díaz, will take over.

This legal setback for Peru Libre, the first party of regional origin in Peru to reach the national government, occurs when the Council of Ministers of President Pedro Castillo is still

waiting to go to Parliament

to ask for the investiture vote.

Since taking office on July 28, the Executive has been criticized by the opposition for being made up of several members of the more orthodox left, including Bellido himself.

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