The former president Pedro Castillo was pronounced after the Judicial Branch and the Constitutional Court They ordered the release of their counterpart Martín Vizcarra and the former minister Betssy Chávezrespectively. This Thursday, September 4, during the hearing of the oral trial for coup d’etat, Castillo lashed out at the judicial system by qualifying it as “lousy.” Likewise, the ex -president rejected the judicial process against him.
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“Now the world sees in amazement the Peru on the lousy system of justice. Now a judge commits an aberration and in the next few weeks the flat. I reject this trial as always, “he emphasized at the time he gave his word to accredit at the hearing in the Barbadillo prison.
On September 3, the Constitutional Court resolved to free the former prime minister Chinese Chinesewho fulfilled an order of preventive detention for 15 months in the framework of the investigations for the coup attempt in December of 2022. According to the maximum interpreter of the Magna Carta, the former congressman irregularly fulfilled a judicial mandate to which he described him as an “arbitrary detention.”
For its part, the Judicial Branch decided to revoke the preventive detention against Vizcarra Cornejo After he determined that the ex -president did have family and work roots and, therefore, a restrictive measure should not be imposed against him for 5 months.
Meanwhile, Castillo will continue to be held in the Barbadillo prison, complying with a preventive detention until December 2025 for the alleged crime of rebellion. The Prosecutor’s Office has requested 34 years of deprivation of liberty against it, as well as the disqualification of the public service for three and a half years.
Constitutional Court orders Betssy Chávez release
Last Wednesday, September 3, the Constitutional Court ordered the immediate release of Betssy Chávez After declaring the habeas corpus submitted by his defense. With this resource, the 18 months of preventive detention dictated against him for the failed coup d’etat of December 7, 2022. The lawyers of the former minister of Pedro Castillo They argued that their arrest had been arbitrary.
On July 24, the TC evaluated the appeal presented by the defense of Chavez, in which it was pointed out that the preventive detention against him had defeated on December 19, 2024, after having been delivered on June 23, 2023. In addition, it was indicated that the hearing to expand said measure was held on 27 of that same month. In that sense, lawyers Raúl Noblecilla and Luis Barranzuela argued that the arrest of their defendant was arbitrary.
Judicial Branch revokes preventive detention against Martín Vizcarra
The same day of the decision of the TC in the case of Chávez, the Third National Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court ordered the release of the former president Martín Vizcarto. The Judiciary rejected the request of the Prosecutor’s Office that requested 5 months of preventive detention against him for the Lomas de Ilo and Moquegua hospital, linked to the alleged crime of bribery (bribery).
According to the document accessed by the Republic, magistrates Enriquez Sumetrnde, Magallanes Rodríguez and Javiel Valverde justified their decision by pointing out that the Prosecutor’s Office incurred errors by argging that Vizcarra lacked labor and family roots. They also indicated that prosecutors were wrong to raise an alleged questionable behavior of the ex -president and to support the coercion measures against him.
