The coordinator of Organized Crime Prosecutors, Jorge Chavez Cotrinareported that the preliminary investigation initiated by the Public Ministry against the so-called ‘shadow cabinet’ of the president peter castle It will not be archived after the citizen Juan Carlos Ramírez Rodríguez warned that he did not file the complaint against the group of government officials and that his signature would have been forged.
In an interview with Canal N, Chávez Cotrina specified that “the doctor (provincial prosecutor Irene Mercado Zavala)” has initiated a procedure to determine if the signature is true or not.
“So they continue with the investigation as if it had been started ex officio?”, the television space consulted. “Yes, because the information contained in the complaint are obviously true facts. It is true, for example, that the prime minister (Mirtha Vásquez) has publicly affirmed that there were people who disturbed her actions,” he said.
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“Even the former secretary general (Carlos Jaico) in the Congress of the Republic spoke of a shadow cabinet. The former Minister of Energy and Mines (Eduardo González), the former Minister of the Interior, has said the same thing. Being public knowledge, the nation’s prosecutor, under her discretion and independence, has decided that these facts must be clarified and will continue with the investigation “, added the representative of the Public Ministry.
Avelino Guillén testified before the Prosecutor’s Office about ‘shadow cabinet’
Jorge Chávez Cotrina also specified that, to date, only the former Minister of the Interior has appeared before the Organized Crime Prosecutor’s Office. Avelino Guillen to give his testimony about the alleged existence of a group of advisers to the president who would have more power than their positions suppose.
“Only Mr. Guillén has gone to testify today; the others haven’t gone yet. (…) They have to go to the summons of the Public Ministry so that (…) they ratify what they have said, and not only ratify it, but also deliver to the Public Ministry the corresponding evidence of their statements, ”he said.
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For these inquiries, the Prosecutor’s Office also arranged to receive statements from the former chief of staff Mirtha Vásquez and the former ministers Eduardo González, of Energy and Mines, and Pedro Francke, of Economy and Finance.
