The prosecutor of the nation of Peru filed a constitutional complaint against President Pedro Castillo for alleged crimes of criminal organization in a document delivered to Congress, the Public Prosecutor announced.
He charges the offenses of ocriminal organization, influence trafficking, and for the latterfor the alleged crimes of aggravated external competition and trafficking of aggravated influences.
“I filed a constitutional complaint against José Pedro Castillo Terrones, in his capacity as President of the Republic, as the alleged perpetrator of crimes against the public peace in the form of a criminal organization aggravated by his status as leader,” says the nation’s prosecutor, Patricia Benavides, in a document published on the institute’s Twitter account.
Even the complaint reaches the former ministers Juan Silva (Transport and Communications) and Geiner Alvarado (Housing, Construction and Sanitation).
It is for two cases. The first of them, known as “Puente Tarata III”, investigates whether the president, together with former MTC minister Juan Silva and his nephews Fray Vásquez and Gianmarco Castillo, has directed a public opera for 232.5 million soles for the benefit of a consortium that had been contacted by operators Zamir Villaverde García and Hugo Meneses Cornejo.
And the Petroperú case investigates the alleged irregular award of B100 biodiesel for 74 million dollars in favor of the Heaven Petroleum Operators (HPO) of the entrepreneur Samir Abudayeh, who met the head of state at the Government Palace before winning the contract.
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The document it should now be evaluated by the Subcommittee for Constitutional Accusations of the Parliament which, if its origin is revealed, will pass to the Standing Committee until the plenary session of the Congress is reached.
castle currently six preliminary investigations are open against him of the Public Prosecutor’s Office for alleged leadership of an alleged criminal organization which operates by its Government to award fraudulent public works contracts.
According to the act sent to the Legislature, the attorney general proposes the constitutional complaint against the president as alleged perpetrator of crimes against the public peace, in the form of a criminal organization exacerbated by his leadership status.
Also for crimes against the public administration in the form of dealing with aggravated influences and as an alleged accomplice of the crime against the public administration in the form of external competition (fraud).
The news of the complaint against Castillo was learned on the same day when the Prosecutor’s Office, with the support of a special police group, raided the offices and residences of six congressmen of the centrist Popular Action party (AP), as well as the home of a sister of the president.
These MPs are called “The Children” by local media and the political opposition after a statement which he offered in February she sent the entrepreneur Karelim López to the Prosecutor’s Office, who ensured she would coordinate the illegal activities within the Executive with Castillo in exchange for supporting the government with their votes.
Despite the fact that the Peruvian Constitution only includes the possibility of prosecuting the interim president for cases of treason or impediment to electionsCastillo amasses six preliminary investigations by the Prosecutor’s Office since taking power in July 2021.
Five of them are the head of prosecutor Benavides and are linked to events related to his government, while another is in the hands of the Public Prosecutor of the northern region of La Libertad, who is investigating him for alleged plagiarism in the degree thesis he has done .with the first lady.
Source: EFE and AFP
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