the president’s lawyer peter castle, benji espinozaclarified that there is a possibility that the head of state keep quiet, this Monday, June 27, before the Congress Oversight Commission.
“We have a commission that wants to have another version in parallel. The first question is whether you could exercise your right to remain silent about what is already being investigated by the Prosecutor’s Office. Of course it could. (…). Yes, it is a possibility, and there are various possibilities and scenarios, all within the framework of what is legally and constitutionally correct”, said the lawyer for RPP Noticias.
“The other question that arises from that premise is whether the Control Commission is going to take it as obstruction or if it is actually the exercise of a regular right, considering what this commission is causing, because should not investigate the president of this case that the Prosecutor’s Office has. In addition, we are in the middle of a judicial dispute (of) if the president can be investigated, ”he added.
In that sense, Spinoza He continued questioning the work of the parliamentary group and emphasized that it cannot carry out investigations when the Prosecutor’s Office is already carrying out investigations.
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“The Control Commission wants to do a parallel investigation Public ministry. I have reviewed the information that was submitted to the Palace and it indicates that these facts for which the congressional commission has the president under investigation are the same facts that the Prosecutor’s Office is aware of. How can the congressional commission take on a case that is pending without violating the Constitution? This is very clear in article 139.2, which states that no authority can invoke cases that are in process and that it is the exclusive responsibility of the Prosecutor’s Office and not of Congress “, detailed.
He also criticized the congressman and leader of this working groupHector Ventura, because you will hear the statements of the President Castle when it is “in the last stretch of the investigation”.
“We have reservations with the commission, especially with the statements of Mr. Ventura, who has said that tomorrow he will take the president’s statement and on Wednesday he will present the final report. It incorporates it as investigated in the last stretch of the investigation. This is as much as accusing someone and then sentencing him two days later. The question is whether there is really objectivity, whether they really want to listen to him or want to take the statement as a mere formality to attribute the case to him. What has been established is that the commission goes to the Palace. What is to be determined (is) the character of that session. Here we must be clear, it is not that the Oversight Commission can define all aspects when it comes to the testimony of a high dignitary, “he said for the media.
When asked if there is any problem with the session being public, benji espinoza indicated that there is no need to do so.
“There is no need to make public the acts of a commission that has finally had the president as a witness when in reality they wanted to have him as an investigator. If from the beginning they had the suspicion, the will or the purpose of investigating the president, they would have done it from the beginning. That is why we have reservations. I believe that the condition or character of this session cannot decide their development”, he pointed out.
