The congressman Jose Cueto sent a letter to the executive director of the Peruvian Agency for International Cooperation (APCI), Noela Pantojato evaluate initiating a disciplinary process against the Legal Defense Institute (IDL) and the National Human Rights Coordinator (CNDDHH).
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In the document, the parliamentarian of the bench Honor and Democracy attempts to link both organizations with an alleged irregular use of international funds, for having expressed critical positions regarding the appointment of Tomás Gálvez as holder of Public Ministry.
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“The aforementioned organizations would have allegedly improperly used international technical cooperation resources for purposes unrelated to their nature, such as intervening in national politics by initiating administrative and judicial procedures that seek the dismissal of the current head of the National Prosecutor’s Office, Tomás Gálvez Villegas,” Cueto points out in the document dated November 11.
It is worth remembering that the Judiciary ordered the replacement ofand Delia Espinoza in the Attorney General’s Office, considering that their separation was based on a resolution suspended by the judge himself who ruled in their favor. The decision, signed by the magistrate Juan Torres Tasso, gave to the National Board of Justice (JNJ) a period of two days to reinstate her in office.
IDL and CNDDHH requested the departure of Tomás Gálvez for being a “political actor”
The Legal Defense Institute (IDL) and the National Human Rights Coordinator (CNDDHH), urgently requested that a new person be elected to head the Attorney General’s Office on an interim basis to replace Tomás Aladino Gálvez. Both organizations point out that the magistrate does not meet the requirement of being and appearing independent and consider him a “political actor.”
This request was sent to the Board of Supreme Prosecutors of the Public Ministry. “A real political condition that the ruling of the Constitutional Court did not take into account and that does not disappear with the decision to eliminate the process by which he was dismissed. The National Board of Justice also did not take this condition into account, which is why it re-enabled him the title of supreme prosecutor,” it reads.
In addition, they ask that prosecutor Patricia Benavides abstain from evaluating and casting her vote due to a possible “conflict of interest” and that a new election be started for the position of interim prosecutor of the Nation.
“It is worth mentioning that, as the facts of this request are linked to the “White Collars” case, it will be brought to the attention of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (follow-up to hearing), as well as the United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Independence of the judiciary and lawyers, due to its significance for the independence of the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the fight against corruption,” they add.
