On the last Sunday, June 12, the President of the Republic, peter castlegave an interview to TV Peru after remaining 110 days without declaring to any media outlet.
During the conversation, the head of state spoke about the most important issues that have been going around in relation to him and his environment in recent months, such as the preliminary investigation against him opened by the Nation’s prosecutor, Pablo Sanchez. In addition to his nephews and former officials, who are fugitives from justice.
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Pedro Castillo and the tax investigation
The maximum president assured that he will collaborate with the preliminary investigation that is being carried out against him by the Tarata III Bridge case. In addition, he affirmed that he will attend the summons to testify that the Nation’s Prosecutor’s Office made him, in addition to any other instance of justice.
“(Will you collaborate with the investigations) I am willing to collaborate, I will attend the call of the prosecutor and other instances that have to do with the investigationwe have an agenda, we have heard the suggestion, the request of my lawyers, in which I am summoned, but it is necessary to know that documentation was missing to know what to answer“, held.
“Of course (I promise to answer) and I willNot only if a process is opened for me in Lima or another space, I will submit, that is my commitment to the country”he added.
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Meetings in Sarratea
Castle Lumps He also referred to the unofficial meetings he held in the house on Pasaje Sarratea, in Breña, at the beginning of his Government. Therefore, he assured that he did not deal with State issues in said residence.
“I have never moved the presidential office to Sarratea and I cannot deal with government issues, state issues, outside the Palace (…) there has been no minimal intention of discussing these issues behind closed doors“, he pointed.
“I have never met (with Karelim López), I never expected her, I imagine that within the framework of these investigations, these videos, these audios, I imagine that many images will come out, but data will never be found for me concrete as the country is being made to believe”, he added in reference to the lobbyist López Arredondo.
Nephews of Pedro Castillo
Likewise, the head of state affirmed that he has not spoken with his nephews again Fray Vasquez Castillo and Gian Marco Castillo Gomezwho are fugitives from justice after being implicated in an alleged corruption network of the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC).
“No, I have not talked again (with my nephews). I am focused, I am dedicated to responding to the country with what has corresponded to us. This is a government, where at this time, it is fortunate and a responsibility that also in a pandemic”, he clarified.
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Mistrust of his ministers
at another time, peter castle said he had a certain distrust in the people who are in charge of the various ministerial portfolios, due to the bad appointments he had previously made, in reference to the cases of those under investigation Bruno Pacheco, former secretary general of the Government Palace, and former minister Juan Silva .
“For now I have my reservations about the people I have in front of me. For example, At this moment that we are in this interview, I do not know if at this moment my own Prime Minister or the Minister of Culture or other ministers of the space of trust that we are giving it, because I do not know what things they may be wanting to assume or thinking of doing”, he pointed out during his interview with TV Peru.
Master’s Thesis
The President of the Republic also defended his thesis, with which he obtained a master’s degree and which he carried out together with the first lady, Lilia Paredes, at the César Vallejo University. This, after his academic work was denounced for alleged plagiarism.
“I am happy to have completed (a master’s thesis) with my own sweat, making an effort and carrying out this master’s degree on gender equity in third and fourth grade children at my school. I don’t think there has been another investigation with those children and that community”, he declared in an interview with TV Peru.
“(Did you do the research?) Yes, with my wife, with Lilia (…) It is a mixed investigation, we have had to see in one way or another, how boys and girls carried out learning processes of socialization separately”, he added.
