After the reporting of irregularities in payments by an informant, during 2016 and 2017, the Ministry of the Interior ordered the reorganization of the Rewards Program in terms of organized crime.
This measure was taken by the Minister of the Interior, Carlos Moran, when he learned that in August of 2017, an informant allowed the capture of Juan Cordero Román, a subject required by the law for the crime of illegal possession of weapons and who was offered the payment of S / 10 thousand.
However, at the time of collecting the money, another person supplanted it and received the reward. The PNP did not know how to give details about what happened, according to the report of the informant.
On a second occasion, the same informant again communicated with the Rewards Program to give information on the whereabouts of a woman wanted for illicit drug trafficking and for whom S / 15 thousand was offered.
In this case, the collaborator was extorted by bad policemen, who demanded that he hand over the reward money. The informant refused and months later reported these facts in the Office of Internal Affairs of the Mininter.
Given these situations, Morán ordered an investigation and ordered an integral evaluation of said program, which evidenced technically that it had completely denatured the essence with which it was conceived at the end of 2015.
"The program was born as a good initiative to capture criminals who could truly be considered the most wanted. However, between the years of 2016 and 2017, it was massively overcrowded, including people wanted for absolutely minor crimes, "explained Morán.
Now both complaints were referred to the Public Prosecutor's Office, explained the Mininter.
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Morán pointed out that these excessive additions caused the most wanted list to surpass 2 thousand 500 people at a time, which does not resist the least technical analysis.
He added that during the three years of the program, rewards have been paid for an amount exceeding 15 million soles. However, its effectiveness was not evaluated and the rates of reduction of citizen insecurity have not been shown.
For this reason, the sector, through the Vice Ministry of Internal Order, is adopting a series of measures aimed at fully reorganizing the rewards program.
"There will be a massive purge of the list to remove the hundreds of people wanted for minor crimes and the necessary mechanisms will be implemented to only admit those who have committed crimes of high lesividad".
Another important measure will be the reordering of the allocation of amounts for rewards. "This means, to put less sought, but with better amounts, with the understanding that, due to its high level of dangerousness, it is justified that the State invest money in its capture," Minister Morán explained.
Additionally, he announced that fugitives from emblematic and complex corruption cases such as Lava Jato are included in the list.