Vicente Alvarez Moreno it was appointed as Chief of Staff of the National Police of Peru and promoted to lieutenant general, according to Supreme Resolution No. 134-2022, issued by the official newspaper El Peruano this Saturday, August 27.
Álvarez Moreno, after being invited to retire for the extrajudicial killings, requested physical reinstatement, supported by former President Martín Vizcarra and César Gentille (former Minister of the Interior), according to Supreme Resolution 084-2020 IN.
However, in this Government of Pedro Castillo resumes his duties as PNP general due to his closeness to the former Minister of the Interior, Luis Barranzuela. Now, with the new changes that the president ordered in the police command, Álvarez assumes the position of chief of staff of the PNP amid questions.
It was in August 2016 that the high police command went into retirement for being involved in extrajudicial murders to the detriment of 33 people. Sources close to this outlet reported that the new lieutenant general endorsed extrajudicial killings, whose ringleader was Raúl Prado Ravines, retired PNP commanderwho is currently a fugitive from justice.
At that time, Prado would deploy operations when he worked in special divisions of the Police with the support of his superiors, including Álvarez, who, according to the prosecutor’s hypothesis, assigned personnel and logistics to carry out police functions.
This was decisive for the Judiciary to declare the request for 36 months of preventive detention against Raúl Prado, who would have had the support of the aforementioned officer to extrajudicially annihilate criminals from Lima and the provinces, founded.
Sources consulted by this means, maintain that the Police should not have accepted the officer’s return, because his promotion corresponds to 1983, the former Investigative Police (PIP), when this new police command led by Raúl Alfaro is made up of the class of 1989.
Likewise, from the Prosecutor’s Office, they reported that the new chief of staff of the PNP is with restricted appearance, after the Judicial Power did not declare the prison request founded, considering that, although there is a link between the officer in the case, There are no elements of conviction that prove to grant a restrictive measure.
fuel theft
Vicente Alvarez Moreno He was not only involved in extrajudicial executions, but also in a case of systematic fuel theft that occurred in February 2014 when he worked in the Directorate against Terrorism (Dircote).
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the accused committed the crime of fraudulent embezzlement to the detriment of the State, because “he did not comply with safeguarding the entrusted interests” and allowed the theft in the Dircote Transportation area.
It was the First Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Corruption of Officials, headed by Nora Córdoba Alcántara, who requested a sentence of eight years and four months in prison.