The ex-president Pedro Castillo used the same response to resolve the 11 questions made by the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations, headed by Lady Camones (Alliance for Progress), in charge of carrying out the constitutional complaint process.
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Last Friday, the plenary session of Congress approved the constitutional accusation against the Chotano professor, and his former ministers Juan Silva and Geiner Alvarado for the alleged crimes of criminal organization and influence peddling.
As part of the process, the former coup leader, who remains incarcerated for 18 months in the Barbadillo Prison, in Ate, received a list of questions from the Subcommittee, however, in his answers he did not resolve any questions.
“I refrain from declaring, under the protection of arto170 number 6 of the NCPP as I am a trick question since it cannot be determined if my answer is as a defendant and a witness”, indicated the ex-governor, accused by the Prosecutor’s Office as the ringleader of a criminal network that took root in the Government Palace.
Responses from Pedro Castillo to the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations.
In the document, which he reviewed Peru21was asked Castle about the details of the message to the Nation that he gave on December 7, in which he announced the closure of Congress and other public institutions. But he kept his secret and did not help the investigation.
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“Likewise, according to article 139.2 of the Constitution, it indicates that authority cannot be invoked before a process that is already under judicial review. Being the case that the events of December 7, 2022 are in full investigation, before the preparatory investigation judge 39-2022; and, in addition, with an 18-month preventive detention order. There is a duplicity of investigation: one by Congress and the other by the judiciary”, he also wrote as part of his “response”.
Other questions were regarding who prepared his last message to the Nation, with whom he coordinated to close Parliament, with whom he was in the Government Palace while giving the announcement, the participation of then-premier Betssy Chávez, among others.
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