Bruno Pacheco, former right-hand man of the president peter castleis counting details before the Public Ministry about the alleged irregularities committed in the Executive and the close environment of the head of state. Part of the benefit that he now enjoys under house arrest is due to the information he has been providing to the special team of prosecutors headed by Marita Barreto, who is investigating corruption in power.
By the way, his lawyer César Nakazaki explained in this sense what the cooperation encompasses of the former official before the authorities.
“There is not no pre-agreement or preliminary agreements in the collaboration of Bruno Pacheco – Castillo -explained Nakazaki-. We are in a procedure whose first stage is to give constant declarations, then comes the corroboration stage, then the negotiation stage, the agreement itself and its approval by the Power of attorney. There are five stages, now we continue in the first phase”.
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The lawyer added that The former secretary of the Government Palace will continue in this phase of statements until he finishes detailing the crimes that he has committed and those that he knows that other people have committed.
“I have considered with the prosecutor Marita Barreto to establish a schedule to be able to organize ourselves better when could the declarations be given to classify the information that has to be delivered”, he indicated.
Over the weekend it was reported, for example, that Pacheco admitted that he himself was the one who gave President Castillo an envelope with S / 30,000, in the Government Palace, in return for having achieved the appointment of Hugo Chávez Arévalo as general manager of Petroperú, a position he resigned on March 20, 2022. Pacheco would also have received half of said amount for this management.
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In the case of military promotions, in addition, Pacheco It has involved police non-commissioned officers Jorge Tarrillo Gálvez and Nilo Irogin Chávez and the president’s nephews Fray Vásquez and Gian Marco Castillo. The former secretary said in this regard that they were the ones who were in charge of charging 10 officers and gave him the list, with annotations from President Castillo, which he processed before the General Commander of the Police to manage the promotions of the agents.
Part of what he has revealed also points to the group of congressmen called “Los Niños” are 12 and not just six as Karelim López had announced since March, although no names have yet been given.
Protected. Bruno Pacheco betrayed relatives of the president. Photo: diffusion
In general, Castillo’s former secretary has been stating that Those who orchestrated his “escape” were Beder Camacho, recently incorporated into the personal cover-up case against the president, and a group of police officers who put him in a truck and took him to Huaral. All this would have been by order of President Castillo. This and other testimonies must be accumulated in order to later be submitted to verification by the prosecutor Barreto’s team.
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Pacheco’s contribution
For Nakazaki, moreover, the illicit business network of the mayor of Anguía, the family of President Castillo’s wife and Hugo Espino it is already a solid enough issue to become a criminal proceeding.
“Bruno Pacheco’s contribution must be seen by theme. Some require further development and others are already well consolidated due to what he himself is providing”, he explained.
Until the closing of this edition, the summons for the Prosecutor’s Office to collect Pacheco’s statement, in the place where he resides protected by police surveillance for the promotion case in the Armed Forces. AA.; but it is probable that the date will be changed, as has been happening with the rescheduling of the declarations of karelim lopez in the Tarata III Bridge case.
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This businesswoman is scheduled for her statement today at the headquarters of the Public Ministry on Av. Abancay at 9 am Pacheco had a preventive detention order since March for the Tarata III case, but Judge Manuel Chuyo annulled that order on July 23 after the former official turned himself in to the authorities.
Pedro Castillo: cover-up case
The citations to peter castle for this Thursday, August 4 and Tuesday, August 9, they remain unanswered. The president was summoned to answer for the cases of promotions in FF. AA. and personal concealment, however, to date his lawyers have not clearly answered whether or not Castillo will respond to the authorities.
Former Minister Mariano Gonzales was also summoned to testify to the National Prosecutor’s Office for the same case of cover-up this Friday the 5th at three in the afternoon.
