Benji Espinoza, attorney for prosecutor Elizabeth Peralta, ruled out the possibility of relying on sincere confession and effective collaboration in the case of Andrés Hurtado, for the alleged crime of influence peddling and specific active bribery.
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“It is not that the Prosecutor’s Office has asked him to testify, we as lawyers have requested it and the prosecutor in charge has already accepted, but he has not yet set a date and time.”said the lawyer, defending his client’s claim of innocence.
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He also questioned the fact that prosecutor Alcides Chinchay called Ana Siucho to testify first before handing the case file to his client, thus altering due process. “How are you going to call Ana Siucho if they haven’t given us the file yet? We already filed a nullity”he noted.
