Pedro Castillo: court grants appeal in his favor to annul investigation against him

Process. He Power of attorney granted an appeal, filed by the defense of former coup president Pedro Castilloagainst the resolution that declared unfounded the previous question requested in the investigation against him for the alleged crime of rebellion, which led Castillo Terrones to serve 18 months in preventive detention in the Barbadillo prison as a result of the failed coup d’état that he attempted perpetrate on December 7.

Indeed, it was the Supreme Court of Preparatory Investigation, in charge of the supreme judge Juan Carlos Checkleywho decided admit the appeal in favor of Pedro Castillo, who seeks to prevent the investigation for the alleged crimes of rebellion from continuingconspiracy, abuse of authority and serious disturbance of public peace.

According to the networks Judiciaryl, the magistrate “ordered to submit the aforementioned challenge to the Permanent Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Republic for the pertinent purposes.”

Previously, the same Juan Carlos Checkley declared the previous question raised by the defense of Pedro Castillo unfoundedwhich maintained that there was no impeachment process that would allow the presidential immunity to be lifted in order to detain him at the moment he was going, together with his family, to the Mexico’s embassy.

Checkley denied the former president’s request, considering that his right to defense it would not have been affected, but that “the strict factual assumption that enabled a constitutional accusation procedure was not presented in the terms of article 89 of the Regulations of Congress.”