Overview
- Entrepreneur José Antonio Muchaipiña filed a complaint naming nine officers, including Coronel Juan Carlos Montúfar, over an alleged cash theft during a November 1 operation in Huacho.
- Muchaipiña says officers entered his home without a judicial order or a prosecutor present and took S/500,000 he kept hidden in a shoebox drawer.
- He asserts he can document possession of the funds with bank statements, withdrawal vouchers, and SUNAT declarations.
- The complaint also alleges police broke and removed a security camera, while the police account says the operation targeted suspects from a nearby triple homicide and resulted in no arrests after suspects fled in fog.
- Montúfar acknowledges leading the operation, denies the existence of such money, and now says he will submit to an exhaustive investigation under the Public Ministry’s open fiscal folder.