The Permanent Chamber of the Supreme Court confirmed that Andrés Hurtado will continue to comply with an order of 18 months of preventive detention in the Lurigancho prison, while the appeal to appear to the prosecutor suspended Elizabeth Peralta was left in voting disagreement, after two supreme judges voted for the appeal to be declared founded and three supreme judges voted for it to be declared unfounded.
This decision has led to the decision to call a fourth judge, the supreme judge Saúl Peña Farfánwho together with the other three magistrates will decide whether or not Peralta serves preventive detention for a period of 18 months. The hearing for the ruling will take place on November 20 at 3:00 in the afternoon.
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Arguments of the Public Ministry for the preventive detention against Elizabeth Peralta
According to the resolution in which the hearing is confirmed for November 20, it is explained that the representative of the Public Ministry specified several reasons why Elizabeth Peralta must serve an 18-month preventive detention. Some of them are:
- Regarding domiciliary roots, it states that it has not been taken into account that Peralta “owns several properties; he does not provide detailed information about the places where he has been moving his domicile, because in the interview broadcast on the ‘Contra Coniente’ program, he stated Aló has an address in the district of Lince that is in the name of her children; however, this is not true because she was the one who signed the lease contract in as lessor (owner of the property), on April 20, two thousand and twenty-four, therefore, there is no truthful information provided by the accused regarding her properties.”, the letter reads.
- Regarding family roots, the representative of the Public Ministry specified that “she does not have a family burden that subjects her to a certain place, that is, dependent people in her care, since each of her children is of legal age and They can stand on their own.”
- Regarding employment roots, the Prosecutor’s Office states that according to the Prosecutorial Career Law, prosecutors are prohibited from “defending or advising, publicly or privately, except in their own cause, their spouse or cohabitant, their parents and children.” Likewise, he highlighted that Peralta has been suspended by the National Control Authority of the Public Ministry since September 17, 2024.
