The penalty is 25 to 35 years of prison, warns the Judiciary.
The specialized judge Jeans Velazco Hidalgo revealed that the person or people who agree to give their name for the creation of enterprises “ghosts” may incur the crime of money laundering or conversion, which is a conviction with sentences basic between 8 to 15 years in prison effective.
He cautioned, however, that the penalty shall be aggravated or it is considered an aggravating factor if the illicit money comes from serious crimes such as drug trafficking, human trafficking, extortion, kidnapping, illegal mining or terrorism. In this case, he said, the penalty could reach 25 to 35 years in prison.
“Those crimes whose earnings are converted, are inserted in the course of trade are to be punished with such punishment, between 25 to 35 years of imprisonment”, she specified.
In this same line, the magistrate added that article 1, of legislative decree 1106, provides for a penalty of 10 to 20 years of imprisonment against those who take advantage of their position of officers, agents of the real estate sector to “launder” money.
Also revealed that the peruvian legislation provides for a penalty of disqualification for holding office and the prohibition of the exercise of occupations in which it has been validated for committing the crime, the dissolution of the legal person; amongst others.
In this regard, the judge explained that there is a special law contemplates and sanctions to any person that comes to this money laundering as it is also known money laundering.
In a process of washing of assets to a figurehead apart to receive a punitive sanctions, which can reach up to 35 years of prison sentences, also will involve the imposition of a payment of civil redress, which is not any amount, are amounts quite quantifiable.
Source: Peruvian
Date: 11/09/2024
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