This morning the president peter castle He surprised everyone by going to the Public Ministry accompanied by his two lawyers, Benji Espinoza and Eduardo Pachas. However, he only stayed an hour inside the Prosecutor’s Office.
Minutes after 8:30 in the morning, he walked out of the Government Palace, heading for the Prosecutor’s Office, located on Abancay Avenue. This despite the fact that yesterday, Wednesday, his lawyer, Benji Espinoza, had announced that the president would not attend because the procedure had to be carried out at the Palace.
At 9:08 in the morning, the Prosecutor’s Office reported that the interrogation of the president had already begun in the case of irregular promotions in the Armed Forces and the Police.
ORIGINAL NOTE
The conflict started by peter castle against the Nation’s prosecutor, Patricia Benavides, went to a new level yesterday. Until yesterday, the president had no intention of answering for the cases in which he is being investigated if the fiscal proceedings are not carried out as he wants.
Yesterday, Benavides came out to answer the attacks that the president has launched against her for a week and warned that she is the victim of “a smear campaign.”
When asked if, in the midst of that environment, she will go to the Government Palace today to question Castillo about the irregular promotions in the Armed Forces and the National Police, as required by the defense, the head of the Public Ministry clarified that it is the president who You must attend the tax office at 9:00 am.
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“The defense request is based on article 167 of the Criminal Procedure Code; however, that prerogative is only applicable when the high dignitary is a witness; Being the one investigated, he has to go to the Prosecutor’s Office, ”he explained in dialogue with RPP.
That norm states that only to provide testimony, senior officials can choose the place where they will undergo the interrogation. And this is not the case, since the head of state is under investigation accused of leading a criminal organization. Thus concluded the Illicit Enrichment Area of the National Prosecutor’s Office, in charge of Marco Huamán.
After hearing this pronouncement, Benji Espinoza, the president’s lawyer, declared that the Supreme Prosecutor’s decision was “a whim” and announced that they will not appear at today’s proceedings or those scheduled for Friday (Petroperú case) and for the Tuesday 9 (due to the removal of former Interior Minister Mariano González). “We are not going to submit to the whims of a person, no matter how much position he has; the rules are respected, not the will of the people who have an ephemeral, transitory position, ”he told the press.
:quality(75)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/elcomercio/RNERRG63QBEMLF3YWAOOR5LBOA.jpeg "Prosecutor of the Nation received President Castillo for the case of irregular promotions in the Armed Forces.")
Prosecutor sources indicated to Peru21 that Castillo’s absence could be considered obstruction of justice. Espinoza minimized that possibility by pointing out that this would be the first absence of his defendant in a procedure and assured that they will request the rescheduling of this and the other two procedures. In addition, he indicated that he will file a legal guardianship so that the supreme judge of preliminary investigation determines whether the president has the power to choose where he declares.
On promotions in the Armed Forces. and the PNP, this newspaper reported that, according to former presidential secretary Bruno Pacheco, at least 8 of the 25 police colonels who rose to general paid a prior bribe of US$20,000. Castillo’s escorts, according to Pacheco, collected the illicit money that would have come into the hands of the president.
Keep in mind
-Yesterday shortly before midnight, Pedro Castillo presided over an unusual meeting with Mexican government authorities, headed by the Secretary of Foreign Relations, Marcelo Ebrard, to strengthen commercial ties. The entourage then went to Bolivia and Colombia, for the inauguration of Gustavo Petro.
-Bruno Pacheco’s lawyer, César Nakazaki, said that “it is very strange” that Judge Raúl Justiniano has refrained from attending to the measures required by the special team of the Prosecutor’s Office, as reported by Peru21. “The judge has broken jurisprudence,” he declared.
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:quality(75)/cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/xYFLAu6y/poster.jpg "Prosecutor of the Nation received President Castillo for the case of irregular promotions in the Armed Forces.")
