The National Party politician stressed that he does not know if he is being investigated and explained that he was the partner of a secretary of the former senator.
He deputy of the National Party (PN), Álvaro Vivianodenied being linked to the case of former nationalist senator Gustavo Penadéswho is in preventive detention after being charged last year with some 22 crimes of sexual abuse against minors.
Last Saturday, the journalist Gabriel Pereirapointed out that Viviano would appear as being investigated by the Attorney General’s Officesince he allegedly tried to find out the name of one of the complainants in the case.
This Sunday, Viviano assured Telenoche that “no one ever told him anything” from the Prosecutor’s Office and that no one called him. “This case has been going on for a long year and I never had the slightest proximity to the situation,” said the legislator, who understands that his name is being “defamed.”
“It is a complex cause, aberrant from every point of view, with which I feel years away,” he said before adding: “Even the eventual insinuation gives chills,” he stressed.
“I can assure you that I have nothing to do with that situation,” Viviano continued and added: “If there is a point of proximity, perhaps even on a personal level, it has to do with the fact that I I was a partner for a long time with the person who was his secretary.who also already testified in the case and did so as a witness,” he explained.
Likewise, the deputy was willing to request a hearing with the prosecutor in the case, probably on Tuesday after the holiday, to “find out the situation, clarify and chat with her.” “If she finds it pertinent that she requires something from me, of course she will have it,” he commented.
The Court of Appeals confirmed the extension of Penadés’ preventive detention
Last Friday, the Court of Appeals confirmed the extension of preventive detention for 180 days for Penadés, which had been defined at the beginning of this month.
The measure corresponds to an extension of the preventive detention that was imposed on October 10, 2023, when he was formalized in the case as a defendant, which expired on the 10th.
Source: Ambito
