The Public Ministry summoned the Republic President, peter castlefor August 4 and 9 for the alleged crimes of collusion (promotions in the Armed Forces) and personal concealment (obstruction of the capture of fugitives from justice), according to his Attorney Benji Espinoza.
The legal representative pointed out that it is being evaluated whether the Nation’s prosecutor, Patricia Benavides, goes to the Government Palace or the president goes to the headquarters of the Public Ministry.
“There are two dates, both are in the morning. What is yet to be defined is that if the president, as happened in the Tarata III case, goes to the Prosecutor’s Office or the National Prosecutor’s Office, as a guarantee of what the law establishes, he comes to the Government Palace”, said Pedro Castillo’s lawyer.
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benji espinoza He indicated that the position of the defense will not change in the face of questions from the Prosecutor’s Office, considering that “the president cannot be investigated while his term lasts.”
“At the beginning with one open case, now with four and, if one more is opened, by the Prosecutor’s Office, the defense position is one. The President of the Republic cannot be investigated while he is in office, unless it is the crime of treason against the fatherland,” he asserted.
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Bruno Pacheco confirmed that there were illicit payments in the promotions of the National Police of Peru in December 2021. In the statement of the former presidential secretary that was taken by the Special Team against the Corruption of Power, led by the superior prosecutor Marita Barreto, he detailed that at least 10 generals benefited.
The collaborator highlighted that the officers made a payment of 20,000 dollars that would have been channeled by PNP non-commissioned officers Jorge Tarrillo Gálvez and Nilo Irigoin Chávez, nicknamed ‘Las Sombras’.
Also, before Bruno Pacheco surrendered to justice, the former Minister of the Interior Mariano Gonzalez He affirmed that President Pedro Castillo obstructs justice to prevent his nephew Fray Vásquez and the former secretary of Palacio from being arrested.
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“Today I have no doubts about the commitment that Mr. Castillo has with corruption. I have no doubt that this abrupt departure has to do with obstructing the administration of justice. I believe that Mr. Castillo is obstructing justice because he is impeding the work of specialized intelligence agents who are looking for fugitives,” he said on Panamericana TV.
