Vizcarra was sent to the common jail of Ancón after spending months in the presidential prison of Barbadillo. Five months of preventive detention for accusations of corruption.
The former president of Peru, Martín Vizcarra was unexpected way Friday night From the presidential prison of Barbadillo to the common prison of Ancónnorth of Lima, where he will continue to turn five months of preventive detention for accusations of peculation.
The Barbadillo prison, built at the beginning of the 21st century to house ex -lorders of the countryuntil now had three former presidents inside, including Vizcarra. However, the Peruvian prison authority (INPE) indicated that the ex -president did not meet the requirements to remain there, without offering major details.
“I will resist, they will not bend me,” said Vizcarra
Through a message on the X network, Vizcarra said: “I will resist from the place they send me, but they will not bend me. I will continue to fight to recover our democracy and for Peruvians to join against the mafia that governs us “. The ex -president denies the charges and had already been politically disabled by Congress, which prevents him from running in the elections next year.
He INPE It depends on the Executive Power, headed by the President Dina Boluartewhose approval index remains in a single digit. Boluarte, who came to power after the dismissal of who was his formula partner, Pedro Castillo, made a series of changes in his cabinet on Saturday, including the designation of Juan José Santivañez as Minister of Justice, Ana Peña Cardoza in the Women’s portfolio and vulnerable populations, and Fanny Montellanos as Minister of Development and Social Inclusion.
Vizcarra, who assumed the presidency in 2018 and was dismissed in 2020, maintains a relatively popular profile within Peruvian policy, despite its current judicial situation.
They decreed five -month preventive detention for former president Martín Vizcarra
The judge Jorge Chávez Tamariz dictated the past Thursday, August 13 Five months of pretrial detention against the former president of Peru Martín Vizcarra (2018-2020) for considering that there is a danger of escape, in the case that investigates it by alleged bribes When it was Governor of Moquegua (2011-2014).
In Public Hearingthe magistrate read the resolution after the prosecutor’s presentation Germán Juárezwho detailed payments for 2.3 million soles to companies awarded to the works Lomas de Ilo and the Expansion of the Moquegua Hospitalsupposedly requested by the then governor.
The judge of first instance affirmed that there is procedural and escape danger and questioned the roots of Vizcarra, by asserting that his wife, Maribel Díazand their youngest son live in another city and that at least one of the Labor contracts presented is “questionable“Because the company runs her wife and Shareholders They are his daughters.
Source: Ambito
