The Peru21’s revelation last Sunday has set off alarms in the national Intelligence system and in more than one ministerial office.
When he was chancellor of the coup leader Pedro Castillo, Óscar Maúrtua found microphones installed under his desk in the ministerial office, just days after he succeeded former guerrilla Héctor Béjar in the position and in the same year that Carlos ‘Gallo’ Zamora, a Cuban spy who served as ambassador in Lima, arrived in Peru.
Asked this Monday about the report, the president of the Congressional Intelligence Commission, José Cueto Aservi, confirmed the veracity of the published information. “These are reserved issues, but I have received the clarification that it was the National Intelligence Directorate (DINI) that carried out the electronic sweep at the request of the Foreign Ministry and found the microphones,” he told Peru21.
Furthermore, he also former president of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces confirmed that the head of the DINI, Alejandro Oviedo Echevarría, has been summoned for next Monday to provide more details of the event in a reserved session of the Intelligence commission.
It is important to note that when the events occurred in August 2021, the DINI leadership was under the command—as a charge—of Hugo Cornejo Valdivia. In September 2021, Castillo appointed José Fernández Latorre.
MAÚRTUA’S COMPLAINT
This event remained secret during these four years. Ambassadors and diplomats handled things carefully so that the scandal did not break out.
Peru21 He consulted Óscar Maúrtua and confirmed in detail what he did at that moment and what came later. “When I drop the paper, I bend down and see a whole frame (of microphones), a little structure, and the complaint was made,” he said, evoking what he witnessed when he was 74 years old.
According to what he said, he commissioned his chief of staff and now ambassador to Russia, Manuel De Cossío, to carry out the paperwork to present the complaint to the Public Ministry, a procedure that was supposedly in charge of the ministry’s Attorney General’s Office.
“De Cossío gave statements about what happened, no one could enter the office, because the door was locked when I left,” he emphasized.
OTHER OFFICES
Sources linked to the DINI indicated that in other ministries such as Defense and Interior, as well as the Government Palace and other venues where the President of the Republic usually works, periodic electronic sweeps are carried out.
The questions remain the same: Who was so interested in the information from the Foreign Ministry? Since when did those microphones work without anyone noticing?
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