The President of Peru, Pedro Castillo, announced this Monday that will present A bill was introduced to eliminate the immunity of all high officials, one day after the Attorney General’s Office extended an investigation for alleged corruption against him.
The head of state said that, if they want transparency and investigation, “let us all submit (to justice), the Executive Power, the Legislative Power, the Judicial Power, the Public Ministry, all the high officials of the State”.
At a time when Castillo and the Council of Ministers were meeting in a decentralized meeting in the Amazonian region of Loreto, prosecutor Rosario Quico joined the government. He went to the Government Palace in Lima to request information on visitors to the Executive headquarters, as a result of the investigations opened against the president.
For this reason, Castillo asked for They let him work and he complained. that “many times they teach themselves” I met with him, after learning that an errand was going to be carried out at the Palace, while he was on a trip to Loreto.
The president counted that while he was in Loreto he had to talk to the staff who stayed & gué; at the headquarters of the Executive branch because the prosecutor’s office was again in the place “hindering the work and, many times, denigrating, causing many things”, even to his “own family”.
In such a sense, Castillo rejected “absolutely” the diligence of the prosecutor.
The prosecutor of the Nation, Pablo Sánchez, On Sunday, it expanded the preliminary investigation against Castillo for the alleged crimes of criminal organization, aggravated influence peddling, and aggravated collusion.
Castillo has been under investigation since last year for several complaints of alleged corruption related to the irregular adjudication of the purchase of biodiesel, for pressure in military promotions and for the tender for the construction of a bridge in the San Martín region, through an alleged mafia network installed in the Ministry of Transport and Communications.
The Prosecutor’s Office specified that the president “will have The full exercise of his right to defense and respect for article 117 of the Political Constitution is guaranteed.”
This article establishes that he can only be accused, during his period of everything, for treason against the country; for preventing presidential, parliamentary, regional or municipal elections; or for dissolving Congress, outside the cases provided for in the Magna Carta.
However, the president also declared This Monday, from Loreto, that: “Today an irrational political persecution has been unleashed on me, on the President of the Republic, on different ministries.”
Castillo’s lawyer, Benji Espinoza, advanced that on Tuesday will present “a request for absolute annulment against the provision of the National Prosecutor”, considering that Article 117 of the Constitution is violated, which “prohibits that a President of the Republic in office can be investigated”.