Jose Domingo Perezformer member of Lava Jato Special Teamspoke after the decision of the interim prosecutor of the Nation, Tomas Galvezto make official the dissolution of the working group that was led by the coordinator Rafael Vela Barba.
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Through an opinion column published in LP Pasión por el Derecho, Perez Gomez He described Gálvez as “the acting strongman of the Attorney General’s Office.” Furthermore, he remembered the times when he announced the dissolution of the Special Team “reciting the same arguments maintained by those who seek to destroy the work of prosecutors.”
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“The outcome was announced: Tomas Galvezthe current acting strongman of the Attorney General’s Office fanaticized by the infamous narrative, bans the prosecutors of the Lava Jato case, Rafael Vela and Jose Domingo Perezdeclaring them prodigal sons of the status quo: The internal enemies of the country,” he protested.
“In good account, today, the highest authority of prosecutors in Peru, the strong man The Public Ministry holds its power and like an emperor boasts about how the Special Team of the Lava Jato case depends on his will, arrogating to itself the prerogative of deciding whether he deserves to fall or survive; wrapping the proclamation with expressions of hostility and revenge against the prosecutors of the Lava Jato case,” he said.
On the other hand, Pérez Gómez defended his investigation in the case Lava Jatowhich he described as an “example of irruption, because the Peruvian elite was involved in investigations into payments by millionaire bribes or financing of their political campaigns with illicit money.”
“The magnitude of the revelations and investigations of the Task Force Lava Jato converged, giving rise to the unimaginable, the political adversaries of yesteryear – and their heirs – united under the same purpose: to bring down the Lava Jato case and, in this way, restore the diminished privilege of impunity for politicians and big businessmen,” he said.
Along the same lines, Pérez recalled the constant attacks he received from “salaried fanatics,” who defamed him with posters and stood outside the Public Ministry. Likewise, he highlighted the “aggressive” and “voracious” campaigns with false narratives of alleged undue favors to Odebrecht.
“The insistent post-truth narrative managed to install parallel and deeply distorted realities in the country, stigmatizing prosecutors with the labels of terrorists, traitors to the country, corrupt, among other atrocities that became fashionable,” he said.
