Luis Vargas Valdivia on Aníbal Torres: "His statements show a lack of repentance"

For the former anti-corruption prosecutor, Luis Vargas Valdiviawhat the expremier is looking for Hannibal Torres is to victimize himself in the appearances at the UNMSM house of studies, making a whimsical distortion of reality about the coup d’état that he carried out Pedro Castillo.

“Torres’s vision and narration is quite biased and unrealistic of what happened. All Peruvians saw the message to the Nation and witnessed how the former president carried out a coup, announced the closure of Congress and ordered the Armed Forces. and to the PNP that Parliament, the Judiciary and the National Prosecutor’s Office intervene. That this has not materialized, because finally the PNP and the Armed Forces. they did not execute the illegal and unconstitutional order does not mean that no crime has been committed. It must be borne in mind that the president was arrested in flagrante delicto. He was put on trial and that was ratified in Congress. The premier points out false facts, it cannot even be said that he would respond to the wrong legal criteria, but simply and plainly they are versions that do not conform to reality ”indicated.

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On whether the Prosecutor’s Office can request a preventive detention against him, he said the following:

“I see it as difficult, we must take into account that he has a simple appearance mandate, he has no rules of conduct, we are not facing a case of non-compliance as a legal obligation that is set for the accused. He is engaged in political activism, in which he resorts to lying, but this does not result in the appearance being revoked for a prison sentence. We must not rule out that the former premier is on board to promote this; that they issue an arrest warrant to present themselves later as a politically persecuted person. Let’s not forget that at the beginning he declared himself in absentia, but later he straightened up when they changed his order. This serves more than anything so that the Prosecutor’s Office can fix the conduct in the course of the preparatory investigation. The Prosecutor’s Office must gather these statements that show a lack of repentance, and that, in the event of a sentence being handed down, this will be an effective penalty.”he concluded.