He Public Ministry He has not been able to verify the authenticity of the audio that the journalist Carlos Paredes He gave them after accusing the suspended prosecutor Marita Barreto to filter investigations reserved for the press.
At the end of September 2024, the director of the countercurrent program provided the Prosecutor’s Office an audio in which he talks with the then Chief of the efficient on an ongoing investigation against the Congressman Guillermo Bermejo.
But a report of the Prosecutor’s Expert Office He concluded that the audio does not meet the characteristics of a recorded file from an Apple device, although Paredes said he recorded the conversation he had with Barreto with his iPhone.
According to the expert opinion he accessed Peru21 The audio format delivered by the journalist is MP3, although Apple teams produce recordings in the MP4 format.
But this is not the only observation of the Prosecutor’s Office, since in addition, the document indicates that the date of the recording does not match the version that Paredes gave when delivering this material.
According to the press man, the conversation registered in Audio would correspond to September 2, 2023, but according to the document, the archive would have been recorded on September 25, 2024.
In the conclusions of the expertise, it is also noted that the recording has segments in which the sound decreases and then rises again in minute 2 and the 14th minute.
This led to the prosecutor’s expert determining the need for the original audio or a copy of the original source to be able to certify its integrity.
Ensures that audio is authentic
In a dialogue with this newspaper, Carlos Paredes assured that the audio that he gave to the authorities is authentic and showed an expertise of part that concludes that the material was recorded from his iPhone.
He also said that the Prosecutor’s Expert Management does not have the necessary certification to do this type of jobs “so what they say has no probative value.”