The Peruvian judge will initiate a sixth investigation against President Pedro Castillo

The Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office announced Thursday that it will launch a new preliminary investigation against President Pedro Castillo and his Transport Minister for alleged crime of criminal organization. This is the sixth investigation against the president.

In his official report, the prosecutor indicated that the new investigation, which includes Minister Geiner Alvarado, who was previously in charge of the housing ministry, will be led by Attorney General Patricia Benavides.

The subject of the investigation is the award of public works in two provincesone in the province of Chota, in the region of Cajamarca, from which Castillo comes, and another in Cajatambo, in the region of Lima.

Pedro Castillo began his term on July 28, 2021.

The accusation of corruption against Pedro Castillo

According to the tax thesis, Alvarado coordinated, to the knowledge of the president, the assignment of infrastructural works to Castillo’s acquaintance company, illegallyand, specifically, to a company where the head of state’s sister-in-law, Yenifer Paredes, who was arrested Wednesday in Lima, worked.

Paredes, raised by Castillo as a daughter, handed herself over Wednesday to the Prosecutor’s Office accompanied by a large group of patrol boats (vigilant farmers) who came to Lima, from Cajamarca and other regions, to meet the president at the Government Palace.

Later, during an act with social leaders in Lima, Castillo declared this had “beaten” his family “seriously” with the arrest of Paredes, one day after the capture of two businessmen and a district mayor of Cajamarca.

“To my parents, my brothers, my children and I know that today, at that moment, Yenifer is spending the night on the floor. It’s part of the struggle, it’s part of political life in Peru,” Castillo said. .

With the new investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office, the governor accumulates six complaintsfive of them for alleged corruption, allegedly committed during his rule, which began in July 2021.

Alvarado, who currently occupies the transport portfolio, is the second minister involved in these cases, as former transport minister Juan Silva is currently a fugitive from justice.

Lawmakers commented on Thursday that the investigation opened by Benavides responds to statements by Castillo who attributed the complaints to a alleged political persecution of his opponentsthe press and the judiciary.

Lawmaker Alejandro Soto, of the conservative Alliance for Progress, told the press that Castillo is “trying to raise the people” against other state powers and that it is “intolerable” that he has a sixth investigation underway.

His bench mate Roberto Chiabra added that Castillo “cannot have a message of division” because it is “an incitement to violence” against legal practitioners.

In addition, leftist legislator Ruth Luque asked the president “to act with political responsibility”.

Source: EFE and AP