Justice exonerated the former president of the Peruvian Football Federation (FPF), Edwin Oviedoin the killing of two union members in a scheme that began in 2016, the former sports leader’s lawyer reported Thursday. “The innocence of Edwin Oviedo has been proven,” his lawyer, Mr. César Nakazaki, told the press after reporting the decision issued by the Superior Court of Justice of the region of La Libertad (north). “The court decided to acquit him after verifying that the prosecution did not present enough evidence,” he added.
In 2019, the prosecution requested a 52-year prison term against Oviedo, a businessman specializing in sugar, who has always maintained his innocence. A judicial process forced him to resign from his position as president of the Federation in December 2018.
Oviedo took charge of the FPF in January 2015 and helped revive the Peru team, which participated in the 2018 World Cup in Russia after a 36-year absence from the competition. He spent a year and a half in preventive detention, then a year and a half under house arrest after being accused by the prosecution of being the “ringleader” of a “corruption network” and the intellectual author of the murder of two members of union. shot in 2012 and 2015.
They worked for a sugar company run by a former sports executive. Prosecutors said Oviedo ordered the killings in retaliation for protests against him.
Source: La Verdad
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