Pedro Castillo: Investigation for plagiarism of master's thesis is still valid

The Cajamarca Prosecutor’s Office archived one end of the investigation for plagiarism of a master’s thesis that is being pursued against the president Pedro Castillo and his wife Lilia Paredes.

That extreme came off the mother folder, in charge of the prosecutor Juan Tantaleán, and corresponds to the process that the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor had for the crime against public faith in the modality of generic falsehood.

The provision was derived from Anticorruption to Tantaleán, which keeps the investigation open for the crime of aggravated plagiarism.

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The Chotan prosecutor, through a letter issued yesterday, only proceeded to ratify that the case for the crime against public faith will not be formalized.

Fiscal provision of November 10 in which it is declared not to formalize an investigation for the crime of generic falsehood.

Peru21 agreed to provision No. 7-2022, dated October 10, in which the prosecutor Tantaleán resolved to provisionally reserve the case for aggravated plagiarism until obtaining the statements of Castillo and Paredes, and carrying out other procedures.

Fiscal provision of October 10 that declares the case in provisional reserve until evidence is collected.

Prosecutor sources told this newspaper that an expert opinion is underway to determine if there was a copy of other academic texts by the presidential couple, who supported their thesis in 2012 and received their degrees in Educational Psychology from the César Vallejo University in 2013.