The superintendent of migrations, Jorge Fernandezassured that the former minister of Transport and Communications Juan Silva He has not left Peru after an arrest warrant was issued against him.
In statements to Canal N, he explained that the informative migratory alert issued on May 27 was complemented by the arrest warrant issued by the Preparatory Investigation Court of the Supreme Court.
“The National Superintendence of Migration is in charge of border checkpoints and controls. For none of these offices has Mr. Juan Francisco Silva Villegas left Peru”he expressed.
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“Since May 27 of this year we had an informative migratory alert (…) Today the knowledge of the order issued by the Judicial Power has been linked and that informative migratory alert has been complemented with the preliminary arrest warrant”he added.
In this sense, the official stated that the former head of the MTC you cannot exit through any of the border posts. “Until today, Mr. Juan Silva Villegas has not left the country due to immigration controls”narrowed down
It indicated that when a preliminary arrest was issued, in the event that Silva Villegas approaches a border post, it will be the immigration inspector who will make it available to the National Police (PNP).
As recalled, the National Prosecutor’s Office requested a preliminary arrest warrant against the former minister Juan Silva Villegaswho is being investigated as part of an alleged criminal network within said sector, which would be headed by peter castle.
According to the newspaper ‘El Comercio’, the Judiciary approved the request last Saturday and ordered the measure against Silva. However, since then the Police have not been able to carry out the arrest of the former head of the MTC because his whereabouts are unknown.
According to said media, in the days prior to the arrest request, the Police had located John Silva from intelligence actions. However, after the prosecution obtained the arrest warrant for the former official, the Police indicated that he had lost his location.
Without this, it has not been possible to execute the measure dictated by Juan Carlos Checkley Soria, supreme judge of the preliminary investigation of the Supreme Court, who also ordered last weekend 36 months of impediment to leave the country for the investigated.
