“You cannot promote a coup by manipulating or politicizing another power, such as the space of the Public Ministry,” Castillo told state television during a work tour of the interior of the country.
“What we reject (from the prosecution) is to create witnesses, to want to orchestrate (a complaint) saying that Pedro Castillo is the head of a criminal network,” he added.
Castillo described the constitutional complaint against him presented to Congress on Tuesday by the Attorney General, Patricia Benavide, as an “error” that is in time to be rectified.
The thesis of the prosecution is that the president directs a network of corruption of money laundering and granting of public works contracts made up of his family and political environment.
It is the first time that the prosecution denounces an active president of Peru.
The Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations of Congress, the first fence in the process that can lead to a trial, will begin evaluating the request on Friday in a process that will take at least two weeks.
If the complaint is declared admissible, a political trial will begin against Castillo, which can last between two and three months.
The plenary session of Congress is the only instance that can decide the fate of the president, who was elected last year to govern until July 2026.
The tax complaint includes two former ministers accused of influence peddling: Juan Silva, former head of Transport and Communications, and Geiner Alvarado, former head of Housing, who are accused of being part of the organization that Castillo allegedly runs from the presidency.
Castillo has accumulated six inquiries against him since he took office 15 months ago. The cases include his family environment, such as his wife, his brothers-in-law and his nephews.
Since coming to power, he has lived under the siege of the prosecution and the siege of a Congress dominated by the right that demands his resignation and has already tried to remove him twice.
The president, a rural teacher like his wife, denies that his family has committed crimes and says he is the victim of a campaign to remove him from power.
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