The Prosecutor of the Nation of Peru presented this Tuesday a constitutional complaint against the president peter castle for the crime of criminal organization in a document delivered to Congress, an action that can lead to the suspension in office of the leftist president.
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“I file a constitutional complaint against José Pedro Castillo Terrones, in his capacity as President of the Republic, as the alleged perpetrator of crimes against public tranquility in the form of criminal organization aggravated by his status as leader,” says the nation’s prosecutor, Patricia Benavidezin a document posted on the institution’s Twitter account.
Castle assured that “The execution of a new form of coup d’état has begun in Peru”after the Prosecutor’s Office filed a complaint against him in Congress and ordered raids on the home of several parliamentarians and his sister for an alleged case of corruption.
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“Today, in the morning hours (this Tuesday), the execution of a form of coup d’état has begun in Peru,” Castillo said at a conference with the foreign press in Peru.
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The National Prosecutor, Patricia Benavides, presented the constitutional complaint against the President of the Republic, Pedro Castillo, by means of a document submitted this afternoon to the table of parties of the Congress of the Republic. pic.twitter.com/UyhdaPUXSi– Public Ministry (@FiscaliaPeru) October 11, 2022
Indeed, the complaint also includes two former ministers of Castillo, accused of influence peddling. Is about John Silvaformer Minister of Transport and Communications, and Geiner Alvaradoformer Minister of Housing, who are accused of being members of the alleged organization that Castillo directs from the presidency.
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“Serious indications have been found of the alleged existence of a criminal organization entrenched in the Government Palace with the purpose of capturing, controlling and directing contracting processes to obtain illicit profits,” Benavides reported on social networks.
The execution of a form of coup d’état has begun in Peru
“From this moment It is the exclusive and exclusive responsibility of the Congress of the Republic to decide on the processing of the constitutional complaint within the framework of the United Nations Convention against Corruption,” added the nation’s prosecutor.
The Congress will have to debate in the next few days the denunciation that could lead to the suspension of Castillo, for which it needs 66 of the 130 votes of the chamber.
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The future of the president turns bleak since the leftist alliance that supports him in Congress only has a third of the seats, insufficient to stop the suspension, which entails the separation of the position until the end of the mandate, in July 2026, although will maintain immunity, a figure that does not prevent it from being investigated.
In fact, Castillo accumulates six inquiries against him since he took office 15 months ago. There is no record of the prosecutor’s office denouncing a sitting president of Peru.
Day of raids
The complaint was filed the same day that the prosecutor’s office raided the home of a Castillo’s sister in the morning in search of her nephew, whom they accuse of belonging to the alleged criminal gang led by the president.
In the operation were also recordedthe houses of twelve investigated more in the same cause.
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“The Public Ministry guarantees at all times the rights and physical integrity of the people who are in the homes raided today with the authorization of the Judiciary,” the prosecution announced on Twitter.
The Peruvian president protested after learning of the operation at his sister’s home, located in the populous district of San Juan de Lurigancho, in Lima, where his nephew Gian Marco Castillo Gómez was being sought.
The president alleged that his mother, Mavila Diaz Terrones77, is recovering in that house from a recent surgical intervention, and accused the prosecution of having harmed his health.
“The Prosecutor’s Office has entered my sister’s house. My mother is there. This abusive act has affected her health. I hold the National Prosecutor’s Office responsible for the health of my mother,” he tweeted.
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The president’s mother was taken in an ambulance to a hospital after suffering a decompensationaccording to media.
Castillo visited his mother in the hospital that afternoon. The operation included the 10-day preliminary detention of five former second-tier government advisers. Among the homes and offices raided are those of six opposition congressmen, allegedly in collusion with the government.
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Does Castillo lead a network of corruption?
The prosecution’s thesis is that the leftist leader directs a corruption network of money laundering and granting of public works contracts made up of his family and political environment.
A sister-in-law of Castillo, Yenifer Paredes, 26, has been in preventive detention for 30 months since August 29, accused of being part of said network.
The first lady, Lilia Paredes, and two of her brothers, Walter and David Paredes, are also under investigation and face a request to prohibit them from leaving the country for three years.
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The president, a rural teacher like his wife, denies that his family has committed crimes and says he is the victim of a campaign to remove him from power.
Since coming to power, Castillo has lived under the siege of the prosecution and the siege of a Congress, dominated by the right, which demands his resignation and tried twice to remove him.
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*With information from AFP and EFE
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