A report prepared by Punto Final gave an account of the contradictions in which the President of the Republic, Pedro Castillo, fell in the answers he provided to the National Prosecutor’s Office on June 17, in the framework of the investigations against him. for alleged crimes of corruption.
The Sunday newspaper had access to the document with all the answers that the highest representative gave before the Public Ministry and explained that his previous speeches did not coincide with what he said in that interrogation.
The National Prosecutor’s Office asked the head of state if he knew the lobbyist karelim lopez and he said yes. However, previously, in an interview for CNN with Fernando del Rincón, he assured that he had never met her.
“I do know her when she visited the office, I don’t remember the date. Having visited me 2 times and personally interviewed me. I have no connection with her”, declared Castillo Terrones in front of the former prosecutor of the Nation Pablo Sánchez.
Regarding his nephew investigated and fugitive, Friar VasquezPedro Castillo said that after he took office as president he had no further contact with him.
“I’ve known him since he was born, he’s my nephew. We have not had frequent contact. Never. sporadically. In the campaign we have met after years he has accompanied me since close to the second round, in the tours to the provinces. When I exercise power I had no contact with him“, answered.
However, Vásquez Castillo was identified by effective collaborators as the one who received visitors at the house on the Sarratea passage, in Breña. Also, the report of the Oversight Commission detailed that the president and his nephew had telephone communications after July 28.
According to Punto Final, Castillo also mentioned not knowing the congressmen from People’s Action syndicated as ‘The children‘ by López Arredondo, but before the National Prosecutor’s Office he said he did not remember the issues he discussed with them when he received them at the Government Palace.
“I don’t remember, but in general I would like to point out that not all the visits that come to the Presidency are taken care of by me, but when there are commissions of congressmen, or in emergency situations, I take care of them for a maximum of 5 minutes and I ask them to address the issue of politics and then I refer them to the respective ministry”, he stated.
