The new director of the Specialized Tourism Security Corps (Cestur), General Minoru Matsunaga renamed the organization the Tourism Central Police Agency (Politur). This is the entity’s original name.
Matsunaga was recently appointed after the Public Prosecutor’s Office revealed details of an alleged mafia that operated in Cestur and involved its former director, Brigadier General Juan Carlos Torres Robiou.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the institution and its ties to the military, police and religious corruption ring named Operation Coral. The prosecutors accuse former Army Major General Adán Cáceres Silvestre, former chief of the Corps of Military Assistants of the Presidency (Cusep) of leading the corruption ring.
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N Digital
18 May 2021