Benji Espinoza: "I asked the president if he traveled with his nephew on the presidential plane and he told me no"

the president’s lawyer peter castle, benji espinozaruled regarding the trip of an alleged nephew of the president, identified as “Lay Vásquez Castillo”, on the presidential plane.

Espinoza said that he asked the head of state directly if he had traveled with his nephew Fray Vásquez Castillo to Chiclayo on June 23, and he replied that he had not.

“I’m not talking about smoke, I’m not talking about assumptions, I’m talking about facts. Specifically, I asked the president: ‘Did you travel with your nephew?’ (He replied) ‘No, doctor’. I transfer that specific fact that the President of the Republic has told me”, he declared in dialogue with RPP.

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“The president denies that he traveled on the presidential plane with his nephew Fray Vásquez. That’s the information I can give, beyond that, I don’t know”, he added.

Espinoza Ramos mentioned the statements made earlier by the Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Felix Cheroand pointed out that it is up to the Prosecutor’s Office and Congress to carry out the corresponding investigations in this case.

“Now it is important, as Minister Chero said, that it be on the one hand the body of justice, which is the Prosecutor’s Office, to investigate, to collect information. On the other hand, the Congress that is going to seek information from the Minister of Defense“, held,

The complaint

The journalistic investigation portal Centro Liber reported that on June 23 a nephew of the president peter castle, identified as “Lay Vásquez Castillo”, traveled on the presidential plane to the city of Chiclayo, in the north of the country. According to the aforementioned media, this person would actually be the fugitive relative of the head of state, Friar Vasquez Castillo.

The media had access to the manifest of passengers who boarded the C27J plane, with registration FAP 328, operated by the Peruvian Air Force, on June 23. In this list, the name and surname, the position, as well as the national identity document of those persons authorized by the Presidential Office to attend the entourage with the president are recorded.