Daniel Soria Lujan, former State Attorney Generalpointed out that the challenges to his appointment and his subsequent dismissal occurred after he filed a complaint against the president peter castle for being allegedly involved in the irregularities of the contract by the Talara III Bridge.
“Everything [los cuestionamientos a mi designación] It occurs after the filing of the complaint against Pedro Castillo. Before that, I only had one meeting with the Minister of Justice about the 2022 budget in which I had to participate. We have not had meetings on other topics”, he asserted.
“We were also evaluating filing an amparo action so that the President of the Republic could be subjected to preliminary investigations. The Attorney General’s office works in a technical way, based on this, complaints are made “he added.
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Along these lines, he explained that the complaint filed against Castillo Terrones is based on the fact that the timeline of the meetings between Karelim López and the head of state warranted that proceedings be carried out.
“The complaint is presented by the timeline for the meetings of Karelim López with the president, plus the television report of the Sarratea house and by the way in which the committee acted in the concession of the Talara Bridge, those elements were evaluated”, he stated.
Finally, Soria warned that, because the Attorney General’s Office is without a person in charge, the institution’s lawyers cannot participate in the fiscal proceedings to review the processes, such as those against the former presidential secretary, Bruno Pacheco.
It should be noted that, in December of last year, Soria Luján denounced President Pedro Castillo before the National Prosecutor’s Office for the alleged commission of the crimes of illegal sponsorship and influence peddling, for the Provías case and the good favor obtained by the related consortium the businesswoman Karelim López, with whom the head of state met on several occasions.
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