The First Lady, Lilia Paredes, answered for about three hours all the questions that the prosecution asked him about the open investigation against his sister, Yenifer Paredes. This, as stated by her lawyer, benji espinoza.
“He answered each of the questions that prosecutor Peña asked, who, I must also say, have conducted the diligence with the exhaustiveness that corresponds to the Public Ministry”said the lawyer before the press.
Lilia Paredes, who arrived shortly before 9:30 am for the procedure to which she was summoned as a witness by anti-corruption prosecutor Jony Peña, left after three hours behind a police fence that prevented access to the press.
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The one who did testify was Benji Espinoza, lawyer for Pedro Castillo and the first lady, who insisted that he could not give details of the questions and answers that were part of the procedure.
“I, by law and as a witness lawyer, have a veil to respect, which is the reserve. I can’t give you details or specifics. What I can say is that all the questions asked have been answered, according to the doubts that the prosecution may have had and that I believe today have dissipated “assured.
The legal representative indicated that Lilia Paredes is willing to continue testifying if she is summoned again by the prosecution, and assured that she will go to the Congressional Oversight Commission for the June 13 session, the date on which Yenifer’s presentation is also expected. Walls and Hugo Espino.
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The anti-corruption prosecutor’s office opened a preliminary investigation ex officio after the dissemination of a Fourth Power report in which images from September 2021 were revealed, when Yenifer Paredes appeared together with businessman Hugo Espino before communities in Chota, Cajamarca, to announce construction works. sanitation.