What began with a late-night visit to a chifa to “coordinate about the Peru-China Friendship Day with Chinese businessmen”, culminated in the censure of the former president José Jerí on Chinese New Year’s Day this Tuesday, February 17. After the Congress removed him from office, the now former president may be investigated by the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office for the case Chifagate.
Now, Jerí will return to his position as a congressman. This return will allow the Public Ministry led by interim head Tomas Galvez can continue with the investigations into the hiring of young women in the Government Palace during the administration of the former head of state. The reason is that Jerí will no longer have the protection of the presidential investiture.
The investigation, according to sources The Republicwould be carried out for the alleged crime of influence peddling. This newspaper was able to corroborate that the various visits to the Presidential Office that culminated in the early morning hours ended with awards to more than 5 women.
So far, Gálvez has already carried out the first preliminary proceedings. In the first days of February, he interrogated the president at the Casa de Pizarro. For that same case, Jerí promised to provide his call log in order to clarify the facts.
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Oversight Commission seeks to investigate José Jerí
However, that’s not all; from Congress, the Oversight Commission He will also do his thing. Last Monday the 16th, the working group led by Elvis Vergara approved requesting special powers from the institution’s plenary session to investigate Jerí.
In the event that the plenary session decides in March of this year—if it places it on the agenda—to approve the request, the Commission will have the power to make requests regarding the lifting of the secrecy of communications, search of premises, request an impediment to leaving the country, as well as the seizure of documentation relevant to the case.
According to the preliminary report of the working group, Jerí would have incurred a lack of transparency by having unregistered meetings, contradictions in his statements and alleged favors to businessman Zhihua Yang.
