Elvis Vergara acciopopulist congressman starred in a critical moment in the Congress Oversight Commission this Thursday, April 28when he confronted the businesswoman karelim lopez. The also spokesman for the parliamentary group was insistent when asking the businesswoman if he is part of ‘Children‘, a group where Vergara was syndicated as a member.
However, López chose to evade the answer.a, despite the fact that he had an open letter to mention what he knew about this parliamentary group. It should be noted that when the subject of “children” During the Oversight Commission and Karelim López was consulted about the identity of the congressmen, the session became reserved, “because it was a matter of investigation” according to the lobbyist.
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Who are the children’?
karelim lopezwho according to his defense, César Nakazaki, became an effective collaborator and no longer an applicant, previously told congressmen of Popular Action to be part of ‘The Children‘an alleged criminal organization aligned with the government of President Pedro Castillo with the purpose of receiving millionaire contracts in the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC).
Along these lines, legislators Juan Mori (Loreto), Raúl Doroteo (Ica) and Elvis Vergara (Ucayali) would form part of the group that López Arredondo mentioned. Similarly, according to Epicentro TV, the other legislators would be Ilich López (Junín), Darwin Espinoza (Áncash), Jorge Flores (Puno). Total, six parliamentarians were involved by the businesswoman.
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Elvis Vergara faces Karelim López
“I would also like to ask Mrs. López to answer the questions one by one according to how I consult them,” began the parliamentarian, who is part of the aforementioned commission and was accused by Karelim of being part of the organization criminal known as ‘The Children’.
Along these lines, the legislator from the Ucayali region asked López if he needed any medication to continue with his demonstration. “Mrs. López, do you need, before continuing the statement, any medication or are you okay?
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Karelim López: “I think they should give the president (Castillo) medication”
For her part, the businesswoman addressed the president of said commission, Congressman Héctor Ventura, to respond to Vergara Mendoza.
“Through you, Mr. President. I am prepared for all kinds of attacks. I don’t need (medication). I appreciate your concern. I believe that they should give the president (Castillo) medication so that he can bring us to a good conclusion”, he sentenced.
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“Alright, perfect,” Vergara sentenced. “Just to clarify; in no way, Mrs. López, it is an attack, but you are answering a question that I did not ask, that is why I am concerned. I did not ask the question that you just answered me, ”she insisted.
In that same line of questioning, Vergara continued. “Do you know any of the congressmen who have been mentioned as ‘The Children’ by Mr. Pacheco, according to your version?
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“According to my statement I do not know them, however, I do have a lot of information to recognize who they are and what they have done. It is also part of my collaboration”, pointed out López.
In another part of the conversation, which was broadcast through the Congress YouTube account, Elvis Vergara asked the following question. “Mrs. Karelim López, directly, do you know or have you had a public or private meeting with Congressman Elvis Vergara Mendoza?
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“Through you, Mr. President (Héctor Ventura), I have not understood the question,” López Arredondo commented. “I will formulate it again without any problem, Mrs. Karelim. She told him if you have had any meeting, whether public or private, with me, Congressman Elvis Vergara Mendoza?
“If the man is one of ‘The Children’, that topic is a reserved investigation matter and I am going to deliver it as I already offered it”he pointed out.
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However, the one involved as one of ‘The Children’ continued with the same theme. “I insist on the question, Mrs. López. Have you personally, regardless of the investigation, had any public or private meeting with Congressman Elvis Vergara Mendoza?”
“I stand by my answer, Mr. President”, he remarked. Then again the parliamentarian asked the same question and again Karelim López reiterated that this topic was a reserved investigation.
“Are you an eyewitness, Mrs. López, of some act of corruption where you would have mentioned any congressman, regardless of whether he was mentioned as ‘The Children’ or not?”; Bruno Pacheco’s ex-girlfriend refused to answer.
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Karelim López: “The premier wanted Bruno Pacheco to leave the country”
businesswoman Karelim López, who has been investigated by the Prosecutor’s Officeaffirmed before the Audit Commission of the Parliament that the Prime Minister Hannibal Torreswanted the former secretary of the Government Palace, Bruno Pacheco, leave the country due to the legal situation he was going through.
Along these lines, according to the defendant’s statements, in a meeting where the former Minister of the Interior, Walter Ayala, participated, Torres Vásquez announced his intention that Pacheco leave the country so that he “does not speak.”
“The premier wanted him to leave the country. I accompanied him to that meeting when he was away. Minister Ayala was also part of (that meeting) so that he would go away and not speak,” the lobbyist said.
Aníbal Torres on Karelim López’s accusations: “What the lady says has to present evidence”
The head of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM), Hannibal Torresspoke out for the accusations that the businesswoman Karelim López made in the Oversight Committee of Congresswhere he reiterated that President Pedro Castillo leads a criminal organization, as well as holding Torres Vásquez responsible for having “silenced” Bruno Pacheco.
“Whatever the lady says, she has to present evidence. She can say what she wants, but the president is accused and they don’t present any evidence,” he said.
Minedu denies Karelim López about visits by Castillo’s nephews to his headquarters in San Borja
Through an official statement, the institution rejection the statements made by the businesswoman Karelim López, during his speech in the Audit Commission of the Parliament.
“The Ministry of Education complies with clarifying to the public that no relative of President Pedro Castillo that she mentioned, has held meetings in offices of our institutional headquarters located in San Borja and in no other of our dependencies in the city of Lima”, said the statement of the portfolio directed by Rosendo Serna.
The pronouncement came after López Arredondo declared that the nephews of Pedro Castillo they operated from the offices of San Borja del Minedu, this is because they did not want to appear on cameras or be seen by personnel from the Government Palace.
The Minedu denied López’s statements through a statement on their networks. Photo: Ministry of Education/Twitter.
“They did not want to go to the Government Palace; they wanted to dispatch from San Borja because there are some offices of the Ministry of Education there. (…) They did not want the Palace because there were going to be cameras, journalists and people from whom they have always run”said the woman after referring to those investigated Fray Vásquez Castillo and Gianmarco Castillo Gómez, who are currently fugitives due to the preventive detention that weighs on them for the Puente Tarata III case.
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Aníbal Torres demanded that the Public Ministry corroborate the accusations of Karelim López
In the session of the Seventh Decentralized Council of Ministers in Pucallpa, the head of the PCM, Aníbal Vásquez, took the opportunity to once again categorically deny the accusations of karelim lopez towards him, supposedly having met with the former secretary of the Palace Bruno Pacheco in a department of San Borja or Miraflores.
Hannibal Torres. Photo: Twitter / @pcmperu
“Absolutely false. I have to tell you that I met (Bruno) Pacheco on one occasion, on the street, not in San Borja, not in Miraflores, and I asked him about the events that had happened in the Palace, and he told me (…) That’s what what is happening in the country: the accusations without any proof. I demand that the Public Ministry quickly corroborate”revealed from the session of the Decentralized Council of Ministers in Pucallpa.
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What were the accusations that Karelim López made against Pedro Castillo in Congress?
karelim lopez went to the Congress Oversight Commissionwhich investigates irregularities in the government of the president peter castlethis April 27, to give statements about the accusations made against him for being involved in the alleged cases of corruption with the president.
The chairman of this committee, Hector Ventura Angelasked López a series of questions about the president and the economic favoring of public works through his alleged criminal organization that would have begun to act in the Sarratea 179 passage.
Prime Minister Anibal Torres was also involved in Lopez’s statements. Photo: Composition LR/ Government of Peru
Karelim López and his political connections
Karelim López is a Peruvian businesswoman, and according to IDL-Reporteros, she has several links with different governments.
- Accused of fraud in Congress in 2004. According to the complaint, the now effective collaborator candidate would have charged a quota of 220 dollars to a couple to access work in the Legislative.
- MTC official when Enrique Cornejo was head of the MTC. Both became very close friends during the Government of Alan García.
- López supported Cornejo’s candidacy for mayor of Lima in 2014 with 14,160 soles, through his company Threejots SAC
- Luz Salgado’s collaborator in 2016 for her campaign for Congress. She also contributed to Fuerza Popular by paying 18,000 soles.
- Karelim López had direct influence with the former secretary of Martín Vizcarra, Karem Roca.
