Juan Burgos: ‘Peru is not interested in the prostitution network, what interests it is how they were hired’

The president of the Oversight Commission, Juan Burgos, adjourned the session in which Jorge Torres Saravia, the main person involved in an alleged prostitution network in the Congress of the Republic.

Regarding the interrogations to which both Jorge Torres Saravia and the senior official of Congress, Giovanni Forno, among others, were subjected, Congressman Burgos affirmed that progress must be made in the administrative part and know the reasons that led to the questioned contracts of staff.

This is in reference to the criticism he has received from other congressmen regarding the fact that “there is no progress” in the case in which Congress worker Andrea Vidal was allegedly murdered.

“What has to be clear is that the death of a congressional worker in a probable network that may have existed cannot go unpunished. It has to be investigated, it has to be investigated. I have heard from some members of Congress that we are not moving forward. We must first move forward, according to the guests, in what way the staff was hired, if there were demands, because many things have been discussed but we have to see the administrative part, because the criminal part will be seen by the Public Ministry. We do not achieve that, our inspection is of a political nature,” said Burgos.

Regarding hiring, the president of the Oversight Commission stated that Peruvians “are not interested” in whether there is a prostitution network, but rather in whether there has been a policy of meritocracy.

“We want meritocracy, what does Peru want right now, it is not interested in the existence of a prostitution network, what interests it is how they were hired when there are so many thousands of professionals with master’s degrees, with doctorates, post-doctorates, specialization and who do not have the option of working in an institution as prestigious as the Congress of the Republic. And that some of them enter for political favors. That is why I have asked the senior official since when will this statute of the Congress workers be implemented, that regulation, which It was observed by a resolution of the Board of the year 2017-2018. We will have to ask who was there at that time, right?”, he said.

As is known, after the violent death of the former Congress worker, Andrea Vidal, in a strange incident when she was on board a taxi in La Victoria, a fact that would be related to an alleged pimping network in the Legislature, the Commission Supervision of this State power has summoned Jorge Torres Saravia, former head of the Legal and Constitutional Office and the main person involved in this case, to testify.

Along with him, four other officials of the institution were summoned: the senior officer of Congress, Giovanni Forno; the Legislative Attorney Manuel Peña; Jesús Llanos, who today heads the Legal Office; and the head of Human Resources Haidy Figueroa.

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