The Justice of Peru will provoke a sixth investigation towards President Pedro Castillo – Muricas News

The Peruvian prosecutor’s workplace introduced on Thursday that it'll launch a brand new preliminary investigation towards President Pedro Castillo and his Transport Minister for the alleged crime of felony group. That is the sixth investigation towards the president.

In its official account, the Public Ministry indicated that the brand new investigation, which incorporates Minister Geiner Alvarado –who was beforehand in control of the Ministry of Housing– can be carried out by Legal professional Normal Patricia Benavides.

The item of the investigation is the award of public works in two provincesone in every of them within the province of Chota, within the Cajamarca area, the place Castillo is from, and one other in Cajatambo, within the Lima area.

Pedro Castillo started his time period on July 28, 2021.

The accusation of corruption towards Pedro Castillo

In accordance with the tax thesis, Alvarado coordinated, with the president’s data, the award of infrastructure works to firms of Castillo’s acquaintances, illegallyand, particularly, to an organization during which the sister-in-law of the pinnacle of state, Yenifer Paredes, who was arrested on Wednesday in Lima, labored.

Paredes, who was raised by Castillo as a daughter, turned herself in on Wednesday on the Prosecutor’s Workplace accompanied by a big group of ronderos (campesino vigilantes) who got here to Lima, from Cajamarca and different areas, to satisfy with the president on the Authorities Palace.

Later, throughout an act with social leaders in Lima, Castillo declared that they'd “overwhelmed” his household “severely” with the arrest of Paredes, at some point after the seize of two businessmen and a district mayor of Cajamarca.

Police raided Pedro Castillo’s house whereas searching for his sister-in-law Yesica Paredes. Picture: AFP

“To my mother and father, my brothers, my kids and I do know that right now, at that second, Yenifer is spending the evening on the ground. It's a part of the wrestle, it's a part of political life in Peru,” Castillo stated. .

With the brand new investigation of the Prosecutor’s Workplace, the ruler accumulates six complaints5 of them for alleged corruption, allegedly dedicated throughout his authorities, which started in July 2021.

Alvarado, who at the moment occupies the Transportation portfolio, is the second minister concerned in these circumstances, on condition that former Transportation Minister Juan Silva is at the moment a fugitive from justice.

The legislators commented this Thursday that the investigation opened by Benavides responds to the statements made by Castillo who attributed the complaints to a alleged political persecution of his opponentsthe press and the judicial system.

Legislator Alejandro Soto, of the conservative Alliance for Progress, instructed the press that Castillo “is making an attempt to lift the individuals” towards the opposite powers of the state and that it's “insupportable” that he has a sixth investigation underway.

His bench accomplice Roberto Chiabra added that Castillo “can not have a message of division” as a result of it's “an incitement to violence” in direction of justice operators.

Additionally, the leftist legislator Ruth Luque requested the president “to behave with political duty.”

Supply: EFE and AP