Caesar Nakazaki: "Pedro Castillo's complaint against congressmen is part of his electoral campaign"

The criminal complaint filed by the former president Pedro Castillo against the hundred congressmen who approved his vacancy from office due to the coup d’état of December 7, 2022 is part of his campaign with a view to the 2022 general elections, warned criminal lawyer César Nakazaki in statements to Peru21TV.

The Public Ministry requests that if the ruling were to convict the former president, it be executed immediately and the second instance is not expected. In his final argument he ratifies his request for a 15-year prison sentence.

Last Wednesday, the coup plotter Pedro Castillo – currently held in the Barbadillo prison and undergoing oral trial for the crime of rebellion – criminally denounced one hundred legislators from different benches for the alleged crime of abuse of authority, alleging that he was illegally vacated because the measure was approved by 101 votes and not the 104 that, according to his defense, were required to apply said measure. Likewise, for the alleged crime of illegal appointment of Dina Boluarte as President of the Republic.

In statements to Peru21TVNakazaki stressed that the complaint raised by Castillo, almost three years after the coup, is part of his electoral campaign.

“It is part of Pedro Castillo’s great electoral campaign that he is a victim, a modest professor from the mountains; that he is a victim of the powerful who have kidnapped him — as he says — and that he is unduly judged,” he said.

He added that the coup plotter’s complaint is part of a “political strategy that is not going to go anywhere.” “He should remember that he paid congressmen in the case of ‘The Children’, which until now I don’t know why it has not been developed,” he continued.

Nakazaki recalled that he was a lawyer for Karelim López and Bruno Pacheco, former secretary of the Presidential Office, and along those lines he commented that he is “very clear about what information there is on all the corruption issues” that involve Castillo.

“Inexplicably, the Attorney General’s Office, and mainly Congress, has not allowed the corruption cases to progress, which is a serious defect, a deficiency of justice because the legal fate of Pedro Castillo should be defined in the corruption cases,” he pointed out.

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