The Congress Oversight Commission He decided change the status of the President of the Republic, Pedro Castillo. According to Fujimori Héctor Ventura, head of the parliamentary working group, the president has passed witness as an investigator, after being summoned up to three times for the case saratea. However, she did not attend on any of the occasions.
Similarly, the parliamentarian of People’s Force announced that the head of state will be summoned again, in the coming days, to to declare before the members of the commission.
“After exhausting the preliminary route to take the testimony of the president peter castlebeing invited to the Control Commission on three occasions, today it has been decided to change his status from witness to investigated. He will be summoned again in the coming days. Sarratea case”, communicated Venture Angel On twitter.
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Héctor Ventura: “Pedro Castillo will now be able to give his statement before the commission”
At a press conference, the president of the Control Commission He reiterated that the decision that the head of state now go to the condition of being investigated is due to his evasion of presenting himself before this parliamentary working group.
“Despite the repeated opportunities to give the President of the Republic the platform so that he can investigate all these events, it is that he is passing to the condition of being investigated so that he can now give his statement before the commission,” he said.
Héctor Ventura on the escape of former MTC head Juan Silva: “Minister Senmache has washed his hands”
On June 10, the president of the Control Commission, Hector Venturapointed out that the interior minister, Dimitri Senmacheassumes no responsibility for the escape of the former owner of the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC), John Silva, who is also under investigation. Likewise, he criticized the fact that up to now there is no one responsible in the National Police of Peru (PNP).
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“How is it possible that a person who is being investigated and has video surveillance, and on top of that goes to television interviews, then disappears without anyone finding his whereabouts? Minister Senmache has practically washed his hands. There is no one responsible in the National Police of Peru and less in the Ministry of the Interior”, declared to the media.
What is being investigated in the Sarratea case?
The Control Commission has been investigating the unofficial meetings held by the President of the Republic, peter castle, in the house of Jirón Sarratea, in the district of Breña, during his first months in office. Despite the fact that various institutions that defend transparency spoke out against this practice of the presidenthe waited for the questions to increase in order to regularize his meetings in government palace.
As witnesses, the former secretary of the Government Palace passed through this commission, Bruno Pachecothe businesswoman karelim lopez and the former ministers John Carrasco Y John Silva. Also the former manager of Petroperú, Hugo Chavez Arevalo; Undersecretary General of the Presidential Office, Beder-Camachoand the adviser to the Presidential Office, Bibert Castillo.
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Pedro Castillo: The characters involved in the tax investigation against him
In an unprecedented decision, the Public ministry decided to include peter castle in an investigation for the alleged crimes of “criminal organization” and “influence peddling”. The tax thesis indicates him as a leader of a criminal organization entrenched in the MTC to favor private companies with million-dollar tenders with the State.
Also included in this process is his former Minister of Transport and Communications, Juan Silva Villegas and six legislators from People’s Actionwho were dubbed by the lobbyist karelim lopez as ‘The Children’. The parliamentarians are Raúl Doroteo Carbajo, Ilich López Ureña, Juan Mori Celis, Darwin Espinoza Vargas, Elvis Vergara Mendoza and Jorge Flores Ancachi.
‘The Children’ of Popular Action. Photo: Gianella Aguirre/URPI-LR
