Former congressman Freddy Díaz turned himself in to justice for a rape case

I had no other way out. the ex-congressman Freddy Diaz Monago He turned himself in yesterday afternoon to justice after the decision of the Permanent Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court to dictate nine months of pretrial detention for the alleged crime of rape to the detriment of his former worker.

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The magistrate of the Supreme Court of Preparatory Investigation (to which the Diaz), Juan Carlos Checkley, was the one who carried out the identity control of the defendant four days after the measure was issued, reported the Judiciary.

“The fact that a person obeys the law does not mean that they are assuming their responsibility or their guilt (…) We must not confuse or try to give it another connotation: what we want is for it to be known that Freddy Diaz He is putting himself in the right because he believes in the justice of his country”, the lawyer of the outrageous parliamentarian, Emerson Campos, told RPP.

What happened?

In July 2022, a worker from the office of Freddy Diaz He denounced him for alleged rape when she was drunk. The event occurred in the office of the then legislator located in Jirón Azángaro, in downtown Lima, while both drank alcohol.

For this reason, on January 12, the Plenary of Congress approved the impeachment and disqualification of Diaz for the exercise of public function for 10 years.

The former parliamentarian had been suspended for 120 days after the Ethics Commission launched an investigation; Furthermore, APP, the party with which he came to Parliament, expelled him from its ranks.

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his replacement

The accessitary who entered in replacement of Diaz is Nelcy Lidia Heidinger Ballesteros, who ran for Congress in 2021 for the Pasco region.

Heidinger stated that he had studies in basic cosmetology, a specialized family conciliation course, and also studies in aesthetics. She does not register any title in Sunedu.