Yesterday, the Ministry of the Interior (mininter) appointed retired General Whitman Ríos Adrianzen as the new Director General of the General Intelligence Directorate (Digimin).
His predecessor, retired General César Vallejos Mori, resigned from the entity after the dismissal of former Minister Mariano González. In his resignation letter, Vallejos said that he was motivated by “ethical and moral principles” and “his full support” for González’s management.
Ríos’s appointment was quickly questioned due to an alleged incident that occurred in 2011, when he was head of the Huallaga Police Front.
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Ríos would have committed the crime of infidence by having disclosed secret information about the execution of an anti-terrorist operation, According to sources from the National Police of Peru (pnp) to the Republic.
The information was detected by the prosecutor Wendy Calero Espino, of the Fourth Supraprovincial Prosecutor’s Office, while she was carrying out the legal hearings corresponding to the case of the narco-terrorist alias “Artemio”.
The recordings would still be found in the Constellation system.
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According to the version of the sources, who were part of the Huallaga Police Front, an intelligence officer from the Huallaga-Pucallpa Special Operations Division (Divinesp) delivered crucial information to Ríos, as head of the front, which served to organize an anti-terrorist operation. .
Ríos would have leaked said information to members of the Peruvian Army Command “Chano” to foil the operation.
The Divinesp group, from the Anti-Drug Directorate (Dirandro), was preparing to enter the Magdalena Aucayacu area, but prosecutor Calero warned of Ríos’s attempt to boycott the then-Interior Minister Oscar Valdés Dancuart’s operation.
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“The wiretapping documents were sent to the Ministry so that they could take the corresponding actions,” prosecutor Calero told this newspaper. She argued that because of her position, the issue did not concern her. She “she was there as a deputy prosecutor for terrorism. That’s why I didn’t follow up with him anymore,” she said.
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After the prosecutor submitted the information to former Minister Valdés, in October of the same year, he ordered General Raúl Salazar Salazar, then PNP Commander General, to remove Ríos from his position as head of the front. The change was made the same month. In the position of Ríos, the then Colonel Vicente Romero Fernández was appointed.
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“The facts were not made public so as not to jeopardize the main investigation, which was the location and capture of alias Artemio, and the dismantling of the Huallaga Regional Committee of Sendero Luminoso,” the source commented. Sources from the current management of the Ministry responded to this newspaper that, if this version is true, Ríos would already have open investigations in the police, military or civil courts. And he doesn’t have them.
Another of the accusations against Ríos is that, during his tenure at the front, in 2011, sanctioned then-major Harvey Colchado Huamaní for having entered the Monzón Valley area without authorization to capture a narco-terrorist element.
Colchado today is under the eye of the storm for being coordinator of the PNP special team that supports the search for fugitives from the presidential environment.
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Whitman Rios was regional manager of Economic Development of the Regional Government of Ancash.
He also worked in the Citizen Security Sub-management in the Municipality of San Luis, in 2015.
Before being appointed director of Digimin, he was technical secretary of the District Citizen Security Committee in the Municipality of Santa Anita, in 2019.