Betssy Chávezformer prime minister during the government of Pedro Castilloit could be forbidden to leave Peru soon. The Judicial Power today evaluated the request for an impediment of departure from the country presented by the Public Ministry against him. The prosecutor in charge of the application, Zoraida ÁvalosHe asked that Chavez does not leave the national territory for the next 12 months. The measure is part of the judicial process facing the former congressman for the coup attempt perpetrated by Pedro Castillo on December 7, 2022.
The session began minutes after 2:30 in the afternoon, time scheduled for its start, and was directed by the provisional supreme judge, EDHIN CAMPOS BARRANZUELA. During the hearing, the Prosecutor’s Office said that the former prime minister had planned to flee to Mexico after Castillo gave her message to the nation in which she announced the unconstitutional dissolution of Congress. According to this version, his driver would have led to the American country embassy.
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On this point, Chinese Chinese He affirmed that the geolocation report of the vehicle that transferred it that day he denies such an accusation. “So that the room can better elucidate what the whole journey was, since they picked me up at my home in Breña, by Rambla Brazil, to the premierato. Indeed, we went out at one o’clock in the afternoon heading to my house in La Rambla, and no, as it was speculated, towards the embassy of the United Mexican States,” he said.
However, the testimony of the former congressman, Cristian Martínez Valenciacontradicts the Chinese Chinese version. Before the Prosecutor’s Office, the driver said that the former prime minister was expressly ordered to go to the Mexico Embassy after Castillo’s arrest, also pointing out that she was “very hurried.”
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For its part, Raúl Noblecillalawyer of Betssy ChávezHe said he hopes that the geolocation registration will be admitted as an official evidence by the Judiciary. He also said that both the Judicial Branch like him Public Ministry They have become “tools” of the Peruvian State to prosecute politics. “We consider the order exaggerated. Betssy Chávez He has shown that there is no danger of escape. (…) She is with more enthusiasm than ever to face this unfair judgment. (…) We only recognize fear by the Peruvian State (…), ”said the lawyer to this medium.
