Supreme Prosecutor Bersabeth Revilla resigned from Public ministry after the Nation’s prosecutor, Liz Patricia Benavides Vargas, removed her from the office of the Second Temporary Supreme Prosecutor’s Office Specialized in Crimes Committed by Public Officials, according to sources from El Comercio.
In said office, Revilla investigated the sister of the head of the National Prosecutor’s Office, Emma Benavides, for the alleged crimes of bribery and illicit association.
As detailed in the first article of the resolution 1553-2022-MP-FN, which was published this Tuesday, July 26, in the official newspaper El Peruano, Liz Benavides also terminated the appointment Bersabeth Revilla as transitory provisional supreme prosecutor.
Article 8 of the same resolution reports the designation of prosecutor Revilla as Supreme Deputy Prosecutor in the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office for Crimes committed by Public Officials.
In the exposition of the reasons for this, and other changes within the Public Ministry, Benavides explained that they are due to the existence of a “low resolution level of the cases entered in the Temporary Supreme Prosecutor’s Office”.
“This evidences a situation that requires correction, since, like the transitory jurisdictional bodies, the so-called transitory prosecutor’s offices have the purpose of contributing to the reduction of the procedural burden, in view of which, it is appropriate to adopt a set of public decisions that have the objective of improving the performance of transitory prosecutors to avoid the accumulation of the procedural burden in process”, he added in the resolution published in El Peruano.