The prosecutor assures that a “criminal organization is entrenched in the government palace with the aim of capturing, controlling and directing contract processes to obtain illegal profits”
Political tensions in Peru are getting worse. National Prosecutor Patricia Benavides on Tuesday filed a complaint with Congress against the country’s president, Pedro Castillo, “as the alleged perpetrator of crimes against public peace in the form of a criminal organization aggravated by his status as leader”.
“Serious indications have been found of the alleged existence of a criminal organization entrenched in the Government Palace with the aim of taking over, controlling and directing the tender procedures to obtain illegal profits,” Benavides said in a statement. broadcast on social networks.
Castillo’s situation is difficult. He is collecting six investigations against him and since he came to power 15 months ago, his cabinet has been in an ongoing crisis, with several ministers resigning. During this time he has lived under the siege of the prosecution and the siege of a congress, dominated by the right, which demands his resignation and has twice tried to remove him.
Now he faces an unprecedented complaint in Peru’s democratic history, accusing him of running a criminal organization. The left-wing coalition that backs him in Congress has barely a third of the seats, not enough to stop the investigation (it will go ahead if 66 of 130 delegates support it). If approved to start the investigations, the president would have to leave office, although he will retain immunity, a figure that will not prevent him from being investigated.
The complaint was filed on the same day that the prosecution raided Castillo’s sister’s home in the morning looking for her cousin, whom they accuse of being a member of the alleged criminal gang led by the president. The operation also registered the homes of twelve more investigated in the same case.
The prosecution’s contention is that the left-wing president leads a corruption network for money laundering and public works, made up of his family and political environment.
The president, a rural teacher like his wife, denies that his family committed crimes and says he is the victim of a campaign to remove him from power. “The implementation of a new form of coup has begun in Peru,” he claimed after hearing the complaint from the prosecutor’s office. “Here I am, and if my blood must flow through the streets for the good of this city, then I must do it, and if I must give my life, I will do it.”
Source: La Verdad
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