180. The IML report stated that Florentino Peceros Farfán, father of Víctor Salomón Peceros
Pedraza, Herma Luz Cueva Torres, mother of Herma Luz Meléndez Cueva, and Lucinda Rojas
Landa were present for the examinations.213 Family members were also involved in the process
of identifying the bodies.214
181. Hidetaka Ogura sent a letter to the Peruvian judiciary on August 20, 2001, advising the
authorities of his version of the facts involving three MRTA members, known as “Tito”,
“Cynthia”, and another later identified as Víctor Salomón Peceros Pedraza 215 (infra paras. 297
and 326).
182. The Specialized Provincial Prosecutor filed formal charges on May 24, 2002 against
Vladimiro Montesinos Torres, Nicolás de Bari Hermoza Ríos, Roberto Edmundo Huamán
Ascurra, Augusto Jaime Patiño, José Williams Zapata, Luis Alatrista Rodríguez, Carlos Tello
Aliaga, Benigno Leonel Cabrera Pino, Jorge Orlando Fernández Robles, Hugo Víctor Robles del
Castillo, Víctor Hugo Sánchez Morales, Jesús Zamudio Aliaga, Raúl Huaracaya Lovón, Walter
Martín Becerra Noblecilla, José Alvarado Díaz, Manuel Antonio Paz Ramos, Jorge Félix Díaz,
Juan Carlos Moral Rojas and Tomás César Rojas Villanueva for allegedly committing the crime
of murder against Eduardo Nicolás Cruz Sánchez, Herma Luz Meléndez Cueva and Víctor
Salomón Peceros Pedraza.216 The prosecutor decided not to file criminal charges “for the time
being” for the death of the other MRTA members, 217 “as in any case, more evidence needs to
be gathered on the means and circumstances of their deaths.” 218 He also processed a formal
complaint against Juan Fernando Dianderas Ottone, Martín Solari de la Fuente and Herbert
Danilo Ángeles Villanueva for allegedly violating the government’s administration of justice,
that is, a crime against the judicial system in the form of aggravated concealment, 219 and
agreed to send certified copies of his actions to the national prosecutor for use in the
investigation of former President Alberto Fujimori Fujimori. 220
183. The Third Special Criminal Chamber on June 11, 2002 ordered the ordinary jurisdiction
to open a criminal investigation of Vladimiro Montesinos Torres, Nicolás de Bari Hermoza Ríos,
Roberto Edmundo Huamán Ascurra, Augusto Jaime Patiño, José Williams Zapata, Luis Alatrista
Rodríguez, Carlos Tello Aliaga, Hugo Víctor Robles del Castillo, Víctor Hugo Sánchez Morales,
Raúl Huaracaya Lovón, Walter Martín Becerra Noblecilla, José Alvarado Díaz, Manuel Antonio
Paz Ramos, Jorge Félix Díaz, Juan Carlos Moral Rojas and Tomás César Rojas Villanueva for
Cf. Report of forensic examinations by the Institute of Forensic Medicine on MRTA members who died at the
residence of the Japanese ambassador to Peru on August 16, 2001 (evidence file, volume I, annex 7 to the case
submission brief, folios 445, 478 and 601).
213
Cf. Statement rendered before a public attestor by Herma Luz Cueva Torres, January 30, 2014 (evidence
file, affidavits, volume XXX, folio 20636), statement rendered before a public attestor by Nemecia Pedraza de Peceros,
January 24, 2014 (evidence file, affidavits, volume XXX, folio 20643), and statement rendered before a public attestor
by Edgar Odón Cruz Acuña, January 28, 2014 (evidence file, affidavits, volume XXX, folio 20629).
214
Cf. Letter from Hidetaka Ogura to the judiciary of Peru, August 20, 2001 (evidence file, volume I, annex 5
to the case submission brief, folios 112 to 113).
215
216
Cf. Complaint 001-2001 formalized by the Specialized Provincial Prosecutor on May 24, 2002 (evidence file,
volume II, annex 20 to the case submission brief, folios 794 to 838).
Adolfo Trigoso Torres or Adolfo Trigozo Torres, Roli Rojas Fernández, Néstor Fortunato Cerpa Cartolini, Iván
Meza Espíritu, Bosco Honorato Salas Huamán, Luz Dina Villoslada Rodríguez, NN-4 and NN-13.
217
Complaint 001-2001 formalized by the Specialized Provincial Prosecutor on May 24, 2002 (evidence file,
volume II, annex 20 to the case submission brief, folio 838).
218
Cf. Complaint 001-2001 formalized by the Specialized Provincial Prosecutor on May 24, 2002 (evidence file,
volume II, annex 20 to the case submission brief, folio 794).
219
Cf. Complaint 001-2001 formalized by the Specialized Provincial Prosecutor on May 24, 2002 (evidence file,
volume II, annex 20 to the case submission brief, folio 838).
220