The former president’s sister-in-law, Pedro Castillo, Yenifer Paredes Navarro, appeared before the Congress Oversight Commission this morning to respond to the investigation that is being followed for the alleged crime of corruption. Initially, he was summoned for January 5; however, she was rescheduled by the same task force to attend today, January 11.
During his speech, he answered questions regarding his time working at Hugo Espino’s company and the functions he performed. As recalled, said organization had contracts with the State due to its alleged connection with the presidential family. “I worked for Mr. Espino during the months of August, September and October of last year. My functions that he fulfilled were to prepare the social component of the sanitation project, ”paredes began by saying.
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At the beginning of the interrogation, there was a small altercation between the accused and the president of the Audit Commission, Héctor Ventura. The way Yenifer Paredes responded caused Ventura to ask for “respect.”
“I have a lot of respect for you and that’s why I’m here, despite the fact that they canceled me the first time they called me, which was on the 5th, if I didn’t respect you, I wouldn’t be here. I ask you, please, if you It is an inspection commission, I want this situation to be clarified,” said the researcher.
Castillo’s sister-in-law also assured that despite the fact that in the official records of visits to the former first lady, Lilia Paredes, there is a meeting with the businessman Hugo Espino with the ex-president’s wife, this was directly with Yenifer. “Mr. Espino has never met with my mother, he has always held meetings with me, my mother had her own office,” she told the commission.
Paredes Navarro indicated that he was attending to his private affairs with the businessman Espino at the Government Palace residence. Another thing that she recounted was what she was doing the day the Prosecutor’s Office entered the Palace to arrest her and she was like she hadn’t. Paredes assured that she was shopping for her graduation.
