The Judiciary, through the provisional Supreme Judge, EDHIN CAMPOS BARRANZUELAissued the country’s departure impediment against the former minister of Pedro Castillo, Betssy Chávezfor a period of 10 months. This measure was requested by the Supreme Prosecutor Zoraida Ávalos within the framework of investigations for the coup attempt in December 2022.
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The Prosecutor’s Office made the requirement after the Constitutional Court He left the preventive detention against Chinese Chinese and ordered his release because he spent 8 days in the prison Annex Women of Chorrillos Without a judicial mandate. Therefore, habeas corpus was accepted by the legal defense of the former minister.
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Betssy Chávez departure impediment.
With this measure, Chavez will be prevented from leaving the country until September 2026. However, during the evaluation hearing it was mentioned that the oral trial against him can culminate this year.
At present, the former congressman is subject to restrictive measures that include the prohibition of abandoning the city of Lima without prior judicial authorization, the obligation to undergo a weekly biometric control, and the need to appear before the judicial or fiscal authority on the date and time that is requested for any procedure of the process.
The former Prime Minister faces an oral trial for the alleged crime of rebellion together with former President Castillo as co -author of the coup d’etat. Therefore, the Prosecutor’s Office has requested 26 and 34 years of deprivation of liberty, respectively, as well as the disqualification of the public service for 3 years and 6 months.
Prosecutor’s arguments
During the country’s departure impediment assessment, on Thursday, September 11, prosecutor Edward Casaverde Trujillo based his request because “there is virtuality of the criminal act” of the former congressman. Casaverde said, according to his thesis, that Chavez coordinated together with Aníbal Torres and the stations for the transmission of the message to the Nation of Pedro Castillo on December 7, 2022.
The representative of the Public Ministry cited the statements of the witnesses in the oral trial, the journalists Cintya Malpartida and Antonio Pantoja Ochoa. The prosecutor stressed that both mentioned that Chavez made them enter that day, “despite the fact that the administrative governing bodies were not aware of” and that their presence was supposedly for “an interview.”
In this way, Casaverde supported the imputation against Chávez as alleged co -author of the coup attempt. That is, the prosecutor used the facts mentioned during the oral trial to request a judicial measure against the former congressman.
Similarly, the Public Ministry representative supported his request on a possible danger of escape. Casaverde argued this point by remembering that, on December 7, 2022, Betssy Chávez would have tried to go to the Mexico Embassy to avoid justice. To do this, he requested the geolocation record of the car that mobilized the former congressman.
Betssy Chávez’s legal defense response
The lawyer César Romero Valdés countered the arguments of the Prosecutor’s Office by pointing out that “the documentation cannot be taken into account because it is preparatory investigation documentation.”
Along the same lines, Romero narrated the stories of the witnesses of the oral trial that, as recalls, contradictions were made and that the drivers did not remember the routes they took on December 7, 2022. Likewise, he said that this day other journalists were called to carry out an alleged interview.
As for the route that had its sponsor on the day of the message to the nation, the lawyer stressed that the legal defense “adhered” to said argument of geolocation “so that they realize how the route was and there was no danger of escape.”
Finally, Romero mentioned that they will respect the ruling taken by Judge Edhin Campos and that they will not appeal the judicial decision.
