The investigation responds to the meetings that Castillo supposedly held in the Government Palace and in a private home.
This Tuesday the prosecutor of the Nation of Peru, Zoraida Ávalos, opened a preliminary investigation against President Pedro Castillo for the alleged crimes of influence peddling and collusion to favor companies that were awarded contracts with the State, local media said.
According to various Peruvian media, citing sources from the Public Ministry, The investigation responds to the meetings that Castillo supposedly held in the Government Palace and in a private home of the businesswoman Karelim López, so that, also supposedly, she interceded in favor of the Puente Tarata III consortium, which was awarded the construction of a bridge in the central jungle.
Likewise, it is also due to the meetings with her and other officials and representatives of the oil company Heaven Petroleum Operation, which won the call to sell 280,000 barrels of biodiesel to the state-owned company PetroPerú for 74 million dollars.
According to journalistic versions, the prosecutor of the Nation (attorney general), the only authority authorized to investigate the president, notified this Tuesday of the beginning of the investigation to the head of state and the attorney general of the state (attorney general of the state), Daniel Soria, who denounced Castillo last December for the alleged crimes of illegal patronage and influence peddling.
Soria’s complaint, according to the media, was based on the meetings that Karelim López apparently held with Castillo before the companies she represented won the tender for the Tarata bridge.
At least one of these apparent encounters took place outside the Government Palace of Lima and was done without official registration, as demonstrated by a journalistic report from the Sunday program Cuarto Poder, which captured López and Castillo, separately, entering the same property. from the Lima district of Breña.
Days after that supposed meeting, the Puente Tarata III consortium that she represented won the tender with a contract of 232.5 million soles (57.6 million dollars) thanks to an offer of 27 cents of sol (0.06 dollars) , lower than the next highest rated.
Soria pointed out in his complaint that there are suspicions that the Peruvian president “would also be immersed in influence peddling behavior” investigated by the Second Office of the Second Provincial Corporate Prosecutor’s Office of Lima.
In this case, the former Secretary General of the Government Palace, Bruno Pacheco, is being investigated, and the prosecution seized $ 20,000 hidden in his office, due to the alleged pressure exerted on the general commanders of the Army and Air Force to promote military personnel close to the president. .
The Peruvian president was interrogated by Ávalos on December 28 about the alleged pressure in the promotion of the Armed Forces, and requested that his banking, tax and communications secrecy be lifted in order to agree to the investigations. (I)
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