Videos from surveillance cameras and messages by WhatsApp confirm that Former president Pedro Castillo held a clandestine meeting outside the Government Palace, on September 13, 2022, with AP Lieutenant Commander (r) Carlos Barba Daza. The former naval intelligence officer had been recruited by Jorge Hernandez Fernandez, Spanish, to form part of a spy team at the service of the then head of state.
In the report on the case that the Special Team presented to the Prosecutors against Power Corruption, the images of the moment in which Castillo’s former intelligence advisor Henry Shimabukuro Guevara, at 5:30 in the morning on September 13, 2022, picked up Carlos Barba from the intersection of Tacna and Emancipación avenues. Then they went to the Government Palace and joined a presidential delegation that had planned an activity in the desalination project provision, in San Bartolo.
After the ceremony, Castillo and Barba held a meeting in which the former offered the latter the leadership of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINI). The videos document that, indeed, the vehicles of Pedro Castillo and Barba were Provisur. The toll cameras on the southern road confirm that they were in the same area and time.
As The Republic has reported, charles beard He did not accept the presidential proposal, so Pedro Castillo asked him to join the espionage team coordinated by El Español. Thus, after the interview with the former head of state, around 1:30 p.m. on the same September 13, 2022, the Spaniard and Barba met so that the latter could report on the incidents of the clandestine meeting in Santa Maria del Mar.
In its report, the Special Team attached numerous screenshots of the WhatsApp message communications between the Spaniard and Carlos Barba in which they coordinate to meet at a Starbucks location in La Molina, very close to the residence of Jorge Hernández Fernández, where he was arrested last Tuesday, precisely. The Special Team obtained surveillance videos from the Starbucks location that record that the meeting between the Spanish and Carlos Barba actually took place.
In the dialogue, Barba told Spanish that Pedro Castillo had expressed to him that he was very concerned about what he considered the “attacks” against him and his family by the National Prosecutor, Patricia Benavides Vargas, and the head of the Special Team, Colonel PNP Harvey Colchado Huamani. He added that the concern of the former head of state was to form the parallel espionage team to neutralize Benavides and Colchado. That is why he asked him, at the meeting in Santa María del Mar, to communicate with the Spanish to continue with the plans for the formation of an espionage team.
Barba told him that Castillo was willing to seek funds to obtain electronic espionage systems in order to spy on his enemies.. The Special Team obtained screenshots of the WhatsApp dialogues between the Spaniard and Barba confirming that Pedro Castillo was behind the espionage project.
Espionage team intended to buy equipment to violate the communications of the Prosecutor’s Office
After the meeting in Santa María del Mar, and in compliance with what former President Castillo had indicated, he maintained a permanent dialogue with the Spanish in order to carry out the project of a parallel intelligence team controlled by Government palace.
The Special Team presented to the Prosecutors against Power Corruption a sequence of WhatsApp chats in which clearly El Español commissions Carlos Barba to search for cell phone spy systems to illegally obtain not only conversations but also access to emails, social networks and recorded messages, among others.
The screenshots of the WhatsApp chats that the Special Team provided to the Prosecutors against Power Corruption prove that the Spaniard commissioned Carlos Barba to accompany Fujimori congressman Luis Cordero Jon Tay to the international espionage equipment fair in Panama, between October 11 and 13, 2022.
Chats show that congressman Luis Cordero Jon Tay was part of this team
WhatsApp messages make it clear that Luis Cordero was a “mole” of Pedro Castillo on the bench of Fuerza Popular. And that probably another orange legislator mentioned in the messages from Castillo’s spies was also, Raúl Huaman Coronado.
What is evident from the WhatsApp screenshots of the messages between the Spaniard and Carlos Barba is that there was a plan by Pedro Castillo to organize an illegal espionage team controlled from the Government Palace.
Chief of the PNP does not attend to testify before the Prosecutor’s Office after being linked to the ‘Spanish’
For the second time, the general commander of the PNP Raul Alfaro Alvarado did not attend to testify before the Special Team against Power Corruption in order to clarify his link with the Spanish businessman Jorge Hernández Fernández, accused of leading an intelligence group that tried to track down the National Prosecutor, Patricia Benavides, and PNP Colonel Harvey Colchado.
Record of summons of the general commander of the PNP. Raúl Alfaro Alvarado.
Sources from the Republic reported that the head of the National Police did not attend the witness statement procedure. Although the first appointment to which he did not show up was scheduled for last Friday, March 10, the high command Raúl Alfaro was called again for this Saturday; however, once again, he failed to comply with the notification.
