51.
On April 23, 1999, the Angaraes Joint Prosecutor’s Office brought formal charges against the
following officers: PNP Captain Roberto Gastiaburú Nakada, PNP Lieutenant Claudio Gutiérrez Velásquez,
and PNP noncommissioned Officer Adolfo Ángeles Ramos, for committing the crime against humanity of
forced disappearance, to the detriment of Walter Munárriz Escobar. 32 On April 26 of that year, the court in
question opened a probable cause proceeding against these three officers and issued a warrant for their
arrest.33
52.
On June 24, 1999, the court expanded the proceeding to include PNP noncommissioned officers
Gunther Cuaresma Ramos, Percy Bladimir Salvatierra, and Carlos Hugo Valdivia Urrutia, also issuing arrest
warrants for them.34 In that decision, the Joint Angaraes-Liray Court decided as follows:
[…] As described by the representative of the Public Prosecutor, evidence and presumptions
arise from the proceedings but they depart from the actual facts, those members of the
police force also participated in the disappearance of the injured minor, since on the night of
the events he was turned over to the police station by PNP noncommissioned officer
Cuaresma Ramos, without any documents, and when advised of the events only on the
following day, he made them up, at the order of his superiors; and, to cover up his
responsibility, he falsified the truth by saying that he made the respective document
available to the officer responsible for reports and assistance on duty, which was not the
case. Similarly, PNP noncommissioned officer Percy Bladimir Salvatierra Lauda gave
contradictory versions of his actions during the night of the events, and coincidentally
Cuaresma Ramos, Valdivia Urrutia, and PNP Captain Gastiaburü Nakada went on an
unannounced visit in the police station’s Comancar vehicle to the Julcani mining settlement,
taking their time only in their travel to that place, an excessive time of over two hours; these
acts lead us to the conviction that the three police officers also participated in the events
under investigation […].35
53.
In prosecution decision No. 01-2000 of January 19, 2000, the Public Prosecutor verified the criminal
offense of the forced disappearance of Walter Munárriz Escobar, and determined as perpetrators Roberto
Eugenio Gastiaburú Nakada, Claudio Tomás Gutiérrez Velásquez, Adolfo Edgar Ángeles Ramos, Percy
Bladimir Salvatierra, and Gunther Cuaresma Ramos.36 In criminal accusation No. 010-2000 dated June 1,
2000; the Huancavelica Joint Senior Prosecutor’s Office issued an indictment against PNP Captain Roberto
Eugenio Gastiaburú Nakada, against Lieutenant Claudio Tomás Gutiérrez Velásquez, against PNP SO2 Adolfo
Edgar Ángeles Ramos, against PNP noncommissioned officer Percy Bladimir Salvatierra, and against PNP SO2
Gunther Cuaresma Ramos.37 In accusation No. 018-2000 of August 7, 2000, the same Senior Prosecutor’s
Office issued an indictment against PNP noncommissioned officer Carlos Hugo Valdivia Urrutia, for the same
32
Annex 18. Copy of the formal charges 22-99 filed on April 23, 1999. Annex to Report No. 010-2006- JUS/CNDH-SE/CESAPI
of January 30, 2006, submitted by the State in Memorandum No. 7-5-M/066 of February 9, 2006.
33
Annex 19. Copy of the court document opening a preliminary probable cause proceeding dated April 26, 1999. Annex to
Report No. 010-2006- JUS/CNDH-SE/CESAPI of January 30, 2006, presented by the State in Memorandum No. 7-5-M/066 of February 9,
2006.
34
Annex 20. Copy of Decision No. 34 of June 24, 1999, Annex to Report No. 010-2006- JUS/CNDH-SE/CESAPI of January 30,
2006, submitted by the State in Memorandum No. 7-5-M/066 of February 9, 2006.
35 Annex 20. Copy of Decision No. 34 of June 24, 1999, Annex to Report No. 010-2006- JUS/CNDH-SE/CESAPI o January 30,
2006, submitted by the State in Memorandum No. 7-5-M/066 of February 9, 2006.
36
Annex 13 . Prosecutorial Decision No. 01-2000 of January 19, 2000. Annex to State Memorandum No. 7-5-M/066 of
February 9, 2006.
37
Annex 21. Prosecutorial Decision No. 01-2000 of January 19, 2000. Annex to State Memorandum No. 7-5-M/066 of
February 9, 2006.
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