Criticism. The Minister of Culture, Betsy Chavezhe referred again – and now sarcastically – to the preliminary investigation opened against him for allegedly favoring people close to them with appointments to public office. Through his social networks, he described as “Blanca Nelida Colan 2.0″ to the National Prosecutor, Patricia Benavideswhom I link to being behind the criminal types for which he is under suspicion.
Thus, Chávez Chino, from the city of tacnaused your account TikTok to address the citizens in relation to the scandal that surrounds it.
“I understand that today they will be raiding my office, my home here in Tacna and also the one in Lima, where I am a tenant”, she assured. However, up to now, the authorities did not carry out any such procedure.
At another time, the minister asked him to do a proper investigation of Patricia Benavides, whom he once again compared to Blanca Nélida Colán, former head of the Public Ministry during the Fujimori dictatorship, for then proceed to question her about the alleged crimes with which she is charged.
“Mrs. Blanca Nélida Colán 2.0, you have to make a little more effort because you open an early investigation, in less than 12 hours, on criminal types that do not configure. The incompatible negotiation It requires that I have been interested in a contest, tender or something similar, but that is not the case. On influence peddling, the criminal type requires that I have interfered in a judicial administrative process that is not the case either ”, he asserted in a mocking tone. Then he warned that for a preliminary investigation not to fall “you have to at least think.”
In addition, he also reiterated his coup accusation against Benavides. “I know you annoy me because I told you that you are a coup plotter, it’s just that You are a coup plotter, then, because you want to disregard article 117 of the Constitution. Now with all your ventriloquists and your apparatus from the Public Ministry, you think you can come and intimidate me. You’re wrong. You’re not going to intimidate me. On the contrary, I am going to continue denouncing you because I consider that you are a coup plotter and, please, rather investigate your sister and your entire family who are well involved in the subject of the drug trafficking”, he concluded.
Investigation against Betssy Chávez
The Prosecutor’s Office is investigating Betssy Chávez for the alleged crimes of incompatible negotiation or taking advantage of the position and aggravated influence peddling, as a result of the alleged benefit to relatives of the also congresswoman from Peru Democrático.
Preliminary proceedings began in order to clarify whether Abel Sotelo, with whom Chávez Chino is romantically linked, obtained jobs in the State thanks to his status as a high-ranking official of the minister, as denounced by the “Fourth Estate”.
On Sunday, November 13, a Sunday report stated that it was a family close to Chávez. Antonio Sotelo and Marco Antonio Sotelo, father and brother of Abel Sotelo Villa, would have obtained positions in the Ministry of Housing and the Congress, noted the report.