The Foundation for Institutionalism and Justice (Finjus) is asking the government to use the murder case involving Blas Peralta, the leader of the Fenatrado truckers’ association, as an opportunity to investigate the source of the transporters’ assets.
Lawyer Servio Tulio Castanos Guzman said that the murder case represented a good opportunity for the DGII and the Attorney General’s Specialized Anti-Laundering of Assets Department to investigate the wealth of the transporters.
“I think the government in this case has an opportunity similar to the one that arose in the case of the bank collapse in 2003, when there was great chaos and an irregular situation to intervene in those institutions,” he stated.
He expressed agreement with the comments made by judge Jose Alejandro Vargas while ordering one year’s pre-trial custody for Blas Peralta, that the state was just as guilty for giving the transporters so much power that they had come to believe they were above the law.
Castanos Guzman said that although the state is the one that should be imposing authority and order in the transport sector, it has shown levels of complicity that have resulted in incidents such as the murder of former state university rector Mateo Aquino Febrillet and of rival transporters in cases linked to Unatrafin transport union leader Arsenio Quevedo and the councilor for Pedro Brand, Ericson de los Santos Solis.
Castanos Guzman said that if the state does not put a stop to this situation, there would be repercussions that it will not be able to contain.
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