The former president of Peru Pedro Castillowho was dismissed at the end of 2022 by a motion approved in Congress, denied the corruption charges against him and the prosecution requested a preventive detention of 36 months and assured that he could receive up to 32 years of sentence.
According to prosecutor Galinka Meza, they must incriminate Castillo and part of his officials. “283 serious and well-founded elements of conviction”
“The penalty to be estimated, given that in a royal contest Mr. Castillo is being attributed the commission of the crimes, the sum, in accordance with article 50 (of the Penal Code) allows us to establish that He would be sentenced to a prison sentence of 32 years“added the prosecutor.
Castillo is being detained and accused of directing a network whose objective was money laundering and granting public works contracts irregularly, which would mean the formation of a criminal organization.
Castle, for his part, disassociated himself from any act of corruption at his hearing: “I flatly and categorically deny being an author and being part of a criminal network, the only crime I have committed is serving my country as president of the republic.”
“A castle of crimes has been built, with ‘would have’ and ‘could’, with purchased collaborators; They are going to request 36 months of preventive detention, when I will reach 100 days in kidnapping ”, he added.
Demonstrations continue in Peru: five soldiers killed
In this context, the demonstrations against President Dina Boluarte continue and the violence does not stop:
five soldiers tried to cross a river to avoid a confrontation with protesters and drowned while they tried. another of the military remains missing in Punoat South of that country.
The Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces explained that the officers They were heading in a patrol to a city in Puno to reinforce security since the demonstrators had burned a police station and had confronted the security forces.
The soldiers they were surrounded and attacked by hundreds of protestersand, to avoid further confrontation, they decided to jump into the river and the icy flow dragged six of them away.
Four of the bodies were found by patrols and Navy Divers found this afternoon the body of one of the two who remained missing.. They continue to search for the sixth soldier.
Source: Ambito
