"The Public Prosecutor's Office opened an investigation against journalist Ernesto Cabral Mejía of OjoPúblico, for committing the alleged crime of unlawful disclosure, punishable by up to six years in prison. This was after 2019 when this news outlet and The Intercept Brasil revealed a series of [alleged] irregular dealings between the defendant for money laundering and illicit association,Martín Belaunde Loss, and two prosecutors from the anti-corruption system, Elmer Chirre Castillo and David Alan Castillo.
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The prosecutors received this case last June, and since then, they have ordered the Criminal Investigation Division (Dirincri, for its acronym in Spanish) of the National Police to carry on the investigation. Guerrero and Ramírez are also requesting the Judicial Branch to lift the ban on disclosure of the journalist's communications."
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