He prosecutor Domingo Perez He expressed his feelings and expectations regarding the trial for alleged criminal organization against Keiko Fujimori during an interview with journalist César Hildebrandt. Despite some changes in the process, the lawyer assured that he “does not feel defeated” and asserted that his complaint against the leader of Fuerza Popular does not have a personal or political tone.
The prosecutor said he is not anti-Fujimorist and that the case against Keiko Fujimori is just “one more case” for which he is seeking justice.
When asked: “You have the image not precisely of a moderate and independent prosecutor but the image of a passionate and specifically anti-Fujimorist prosecutor, do you admit that?”, the lead prosecutor in the Cócteles case answered: “No, I have the role of a prosecutor who is currently defending an accusation. How many victims and injured parties in the country would like to see prosecutors like this defending their cases and not just apathetic and indolent officials.”
Domingo Pérez: “I feel alone, harassed, stalked and hated”
On the other hand, Domingo Pérez said that he perceives a siege by some media outlets.
“I feel alone, harassed, stalked and hated. There are channels that dedicate their entire news schedule to discredit my work. Not only me, but also Rafael Vela. It seems that we are the only prosecutors in the Public Ministry and, practically, what there is is a lynching every day in the work that we do. I am tired. I would like the judges to conclude these cases that I have taken to trial quickly by scheduling more frequent hearings so that there can be justice in a short time and not this expectation that the trials will surely take a couple of years,” he noted.
He also added that externally they are trying to discredit the work that he has been doing in the Cocktails case.
“There are people who question me, attack me, stigmatize me, say that I’m crazy… It could surely be a way for them to make witnesses distrust the prosecutor and not show up for oral trials or for judges to sometimes be a little suspicious in relation to the actions of the prosecutor, even to the point that the authorities of my own institution see not a person who is acting based on the law but on the contrary other aspects that border on regular performance,” he said.
He then added: “I believe that this is the commitment that every prosecutor must have and that, surely, at a national level we can find many prosecutors who are fully dedicated to their work and who, unfortunately, do not have the repercussion because the cases do not have this national significance as the cases we are learning about in the Lavajato team.”
