Former Minister of Transport and Communications John Silva denied the rumors about an escape from Peru, after the The Public Ministry will request an impediment to leave the country for 36 months against him for the alleged crimes of collusion and criminal organization.
“(Are the rumors that he fled the country true?) Not at all, rather today I left the Prosecutor’s Office at 5:30 pm making my statement and trying to defend myself. In that event we have already signed a search document and I accept the restrictive measures because I want this issue to be clarified and the real culprits found,” Silva said via telephone link to RPP.
The former head of the MTC stated that he has an upcoming appointment at the Public Ministry for June 2 and that he will be present: “I am in Lima, I am working normally. I don’t have to leave, I don’t owe anyone and I haven’t done anything. All this is simply media, a political issue that, for wanting to vacate the president, they grab me like a piñata. That’s wrong, but I’m not going to run.”
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In relation to alleged payment of half a million to occupy the Transport portfolioSilva Villegas only pointed out that he campaigned with Pedro Castillo, but that this was with his own money.
“They have not given me nor have I given anything. I have done it independently —I don’t belong to a political party—, like any citizen who wants to do something for their country. What these people say (Zamir Villaverde and Bruno Pacheco in an alleged audio) will have to prove it, they will have to bring reliable sources of what they are talking about. In that audio it appears that they do not know me and are talking about an apparently unknown person, “he added.
Juan Silva reiterates not knowing Zamir Villaverde and Bruno Pacheco
At another point in his statements, former minister Juan Silva insisted that he does not know former presidential secretary Bruno Pacheco or the reclusive businessman Zamir Villaverde.
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“I have not met (with Villaverde), he has never been to my office. I don’t know with other officials, never with me. (Did he get to know him?) On television, now everyone knows him. (…) With them (Villaverde and Pacheco) I have neither friendship nor enmity. We have nothing in common,” he pointed out.
