December 25, 2024, 18:52 PM
December 25, 2024, 18:52 PM
The former head of the Legal and Constitutional Office of the Peruvian Congress, lawyer Jorge Torres, close to the right-wing Alliance for Progress party, is accused of having organized a network of workers who granted sexual favors to parliamentarians.
The Congress of Peru summoned to testify on Thursday, December 26, a former official suspected of having set up an alleged network of prostitutionsupposedly organized by the former head of the Legal and Constitutional Office of Congress, lawyer Jorge Torres, close to the right-wing Alliance for Progress party (APP).
Torres must appear before the Oversight Commission to respond to the accusations. The case was uncovered by the television program “Beto a Saber”, where he was identified as the alleged organizer of a network of workers who granted sexual favors to parliamentarians.
One of them declared on the television broadcast, indicating that “she was visiting the former president of Congress Alejandro Soto.” This, from the APP party, denied it in a statement.
The Prosecutor’s Office had already opened a preliminary investigation for “the alleged crime of sexual exploitation to the detriment of still unidentified women.”
Torre rejected the versions in statements to the press: “I flatly deny it (…) and I ask the prosecutor’s office and oversight commission to investigate.”
Murder of a former advisor
The murder of lawyer Andrea Vidal, 28, Torres’ former advisor and right-hand man until September, when she was fired, unleashed the scandal.
Vidal died on December 17 in a hospital in Lima, after dying a week after being riddled with bullets along with the driver of the taxi in which she was traveling.
Torres was removed from his position in Congress on December 13, three days after the attack on his former advisor. “What has happened is serious. The alleged prostitution network, which has ended with the crime of a former Congress worker, has to be investigated,” the president of the Oversight Commission, Juan Burgos, told the press.
