The defense of the former administrative minister of the Presidency, Jose Ramon Peraltadeclared that the Public Ministry calls into question the ethics of criminal prosecution by using a single person as “utility witness” in it Squid case.
Pedro Balbuenafrom the defense team Peraltasaid that that single person—who is also processed in another file— is used by Public Ministry as “witness” in charge against each of the accused in it Squid case.
“These types of actions should draw powerful attention to the justice system. All this calls into question the ethical dimension of criminal prosecution. If, for example, an authority questions a person on the first occasion (2021) and then he questions her again and she tells a different story, it does not seem reasonable for the investigator not to question her about it,” he said. balbuena.
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The lawyer spoke in those terms when referring to Bolivar Venturawho, despite confessing a crime against the state that surrounds millionaire sumshas not been processed.
He said that the issue of manipulation of evidence has a central axis which constitutes the fundamental basis of the accusation.
He explained that the accusation against Peralta rest in the declaration of a single personand from there the rest of the file is built.
That person, who is the one who admitted to having committed the violations which are now attributed to Peraltaconfessed to having driven illicit moneyaccording to his own statement.
