The former senator of the National Party has been in prison for almost 180 days after being charged with multiple crimes of sexual abuse of minors.
The Justice will define this Monday, April 8, if the former senator of the National Party (PN), Gustavo Penadésremains in preventive detention or regains his freedom after being charged with 22 crimes of sexual abuse against minorsfor which he has been in prison for almost 180 days.
The defense of the victims hopes that, in the new hearing, the Judge Marcela Vargas apply new precautionary measures and the extension of preventive detention against the former legislator, since it understands that “there is an ongoing investigation” into Penadés collaborators.
In dialogue with Telemundo, Juan Raúl Williman, lawyer for several victims, noted that because of this, they are waiting “for the measures to be extended.” “There is an ongoing investigation, there are six abbreviated processes of collaborators where it was in some way proven that they went out to look for victims to avoid their testimony,” said the lawyer.
“We have pending advance statements”
“We have pending advance statements, we believe that there are sufficient elements to order the extension of the precautionary measure for the time it takes to conclude the investigation,” he insisted. The victims’ defense attorney explained that from the beginning the same number of victims was handled, but that there could be new advance statements that were pending at the time.
On the other hand, he highlighted that the abbreviated trials revealed the existence of a plot created by Penadés himself to access the identity of the complainants. “There are six people who, in some way, recognize their responsibility and admit to having collaborated with this plan that was trying to find the victims and prevent their testimony,” the lawyer explained.
According to Williman, the appearance of these six people in the case “puts the accused themselves in a more compromising situation,” referring to Penadés and Carlos Tarocco, director of exComcar and collaborator in the plot.
Source: Ambito
