The 53-year-old former president, who He is already serving a sentence of 18 months in prison, He must remain behind bars until December 2025 accused of both crimes for which the prosecution is investigating him.
“Supreme Court of Preparatory Investigation imposes 36 months of preventive detention on Pedro Castillo for being the alleged leader of a criminal organization for crimes committed in Petroperú and in the ministries of Transportation, and Housing, Construction, and Sanitation,” the Peruvian justice system said on Twitter. .
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The ruling against Castillo was dictated by Judge Juan Carlos Checkley during a virtual hearing, broadcast by the television channel of the Peruvian judicial system. “We are going to do what the law empowers me, we will appeal,” said Castillo, who participated from jail.
The 36-month measure also fell on the former Minister of Transportation Juan Silva, who is a fugitive from justice, while a former Minister of Housing, Geiner Alvarado, will continue the process in freedom.
The entrance Preventive detention extended against dismissed former president Pedro Castillo was first published on newspaper TODAY.
