LIVE ENTERTAINMENT is a company dedicated to the production of mass entertainment events. In this sense, as part of the private activity of two of the partners of the company, a mutual loan was granted to the company AIONIA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION S.A para la compra e importación de dispositivos medicos e insumos para la protección y prevención del COVID-19.C. This loan was given with all the formalities stipulated by law; however, product of a political conflict, the company began to be investigated for the crime of money laundering, being the loan granted questioned.
During the course of the investigation, we proved that the assets of the client’s legal representatives were sufficient to grant a loan, since they not only held managerial positions in LIVE ENTERTAINMENT, but also in other legal entities, for which we attached various accounting and financial documentation that could prove our allegations regarding the lawful origin of the money that was the object of the loan.
After evaluating our allegations and holding prosecutorial interviews, the Public Prosecutor’s Office ordered the closure of the investigation, in response to which the Public Attorney Specialized in Money Laundering Crimes and Loss of Ownership Process appealed this decision for the case to be reviewed again by the Superior Prosecutor.
In this regard, we submitted a brief to the Superior Prosecutor’s Office, in which we exposed the arguments why the appeal presented by the Public Attorney should be rejected, for which purpose we compiled everything developed during the investigation and refuted what the Prosecutor’s Office had said. Finally, the Superior Prosecutor’s Office dismissed the appeal, concluding the case in our favor.
It was a very significant case that received a lot of media attention in the country. Former ministers and the current Prime Minister were also questioned. The amount involved in the sale of rapid tests amounted to S/ 41,000,000.00.
