The president of the Republic, peter castlesaid Karelim López has testified before the prosecution versions that have no legal basis or consistency with the truth, as part of an attempt to destabilize the country and carry out a coup.
“The Mrs. Karelim López has provided the Prosecutor’s Office with statements without legal basis or consistency with the truth that threaten the ethics and transparency of the procedures of any investigation,” the president wrote.
“I denounce in advance this type of actions that only insist on anti-democratic political maneuvers in order to generate instability in the country”he added.
Pedro Castillo reiterated what he had stated hours before during a public event in Madre de Dios, where he pointed out that Karelim López was convinced to declare herself an effective collaborator “With millions of soles and tomorrow they will fill the pages to once and for all demand a suspension, give our Government a vacancy.”
In social networks, the head of state pointed out that this attempt to attack democracy is from those who have attacked previous leaders, for which he urged the international community and the Peruvian people to activate the Inter-American Democratic Charter.
“I call on the international community and the Peruvian people to activate the Inter-American Democratic Charter and remain vigilant against any destabilizing attempt and coup in the country, perpetrated by those who still do not accept their defeat and attack the citizenry”commented the president.
Karelim López asks to be an effective collaborator
According to El Comercio, on Friday, February 18, Karelim López presented herself as an aspiring effective collaborator before the Public Ministry. Before the prosecutor Luz Taquire and the deputy prosecutor Juan Carlos Davis del Piélago, both from the Second Supraprovincial Corporate Prosecutor’s Office Specialized in Money Laundering, she assured that Pedro Castillo is part of an organization that has committed corruption crimes
The testimony implicates her as well as Bruno Pacheco, Silvia Barreda, the businessman Zamir Villaverde (linked to the Sarratea passenger house where Castillo dispatched), the nephews of the president Fray Vásquez Castillo, Gian Marco Castillo Gómez and Rudbel Oblitas Paredes and the Minister Juan Silva Villegas.