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Court Orders Nine Months’ Preventive Detention for PNP Brigadier in Puno Bribery Case

The order follows prosecutors’ claim that he solicited bribes from people detained after a La Rinconada police intervention with his legal team appealing the measure.

Overview

  • A judge granted nine months of prisión preventiva for Brigadier Estanislao Condori Cuba as part of an investigation for alleged cohecho pasivo propio, a form of public‑official bribery.
  • Authorities say the alleged solicitations occurred after a police intervention for suspected illegal weapons possession in the high‑altitude settlement of La Rinconada in San Antonio de Putina, Puno.
  • Two co‑defendants, sub‑officer Willian Álvarez Mayta and civilian Juan Berríos Quispe, accepted terminación anticipada plea deals and received suspended sentences of five and four years plus ordered reparations.
  • Condori Cuba rejected the charges, the court ordered his internment in a penitentiary, and his defense has filed an appeal seeking to overturn the preventive detention.
  • Under Peruvian law, cohecho pasivo propio can bring prison and other penalties and the use of prisión preventiva signals the court saw a risk to the investigation or to public order.