Unlike the last summons in which he walked from the presidential palace, this time the leftist president arrived aboard a black official vehicle.
Small groups of protesters for and against were waiting for him at the prosecutor’s office, located in Lima. His supporters launched harangues against the judicial system.
The prosecution suspects that with the abrupt departure of the Interior Minister Mariano Gonzalezwho was in office for just two weeks, Castillo sought to abort the appointment of a special police team to locate two members of the presidential entourage who are fugitives from justice.
You will also be questioned about an alleged influence peddling in the state company PetroPeru.
Suspended the hearing of the wife of Pedro Castillo
While the judicial hearing of the first lady Lilia Paredesin which the prosecution was going to support his request to prohibit him from leaving Peru for 36 months, was suspended at the last minute by decision of the judge.
“They have just informed us that the hearing has just been suspended, they are going to notify us of the new date. We do not know why it was suspended, my sponsor had every willingness (to attend),” the lawyer told the press. benji espinoza.
Lilia Paredes is charged with the alleged crimes of criminal organization Y money launderingas part of the alleged network headed by her husband, according to the prosecution.
“When we are coordinating to move this country forward, we have to be summoned to other places (prosecutor’s office) to go and declare things that are manufactured, comics and stories,” Castillo recently said in an attempt to relativize the investigations and the media interest they arouse.
Pedro Castillo, 52, has testified twice before the prosecution: on June 17 for alleged bribes in public works contracts and on August 4 for alleged irregular promotions in the armed forces.
The first lady, 49, was questioned by the prosecution on July 8. Five days later she attended a summons from the Congressbut refused to answer questions on the recommendation of his lawyer.
Castillo denies any crime by his family and claims to be the victim of a campaign to remove him from power.
Yenifer Paredessister-in-law of the leftist president, has been serving 30 months in preventive detention for a week in the Chorrillos women’s prison, south of Lima.
The sister-in-law is accused of being part of the “criminal organization led by the President of the Republic,” according to the prosecutor Jorge Garcia Juarez.
13 months of problems for the president of Peru
In his more than 13 months in power, Pedro Castillo has lived under the siege of the prosecution and the persistent siege of a Congress, dominated by the right, which demands his resignation.
has survived two impeachment attempts by parliament and the prosecution cannot bring him to trial until the end of his term, on July 28, 2026, as he has immunity.
Castillo faces six investigations by the prosecution, something unprecedented for a sitting president in Peru.
Accusations of alleged corruption at the highest level of government are not new in the Andean country, since similar situations led to the fall of the liberal president. Peter Paul Kuczynski in 2018, and the centrist Martin Vizcarra in 2020.
Like Pedro Castillo, both former presidents had recurring clashes with Congress, which was controlled by their opponents.
Source: Ambito
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