President Castillo and the Congress of Peru face each other over a complaint by the prosecution

The Government of Pedro Castillo and Congress they got into a dispute for the admission of the constitutional complaint filed by the Peruvian Attorney General’s Office that points to the president as being the alleged head of a criminal organization “entrenched” in the State.

In a first case, known as Puente Tarata III, the Peruvian president would have used the Ministry of Transport and Communications to obtain a bribe of 58 million dollars in exchange for benefiting a businessman who contributed to his electoral campaign with the work. For this purpose, Castillo would have colluded with his nephews Fray Vásquez Castillo, Gian Marco Castillo Gómez and the now former minister Juan Silva, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.

In the second case, the Petroperú case, the former rural professor would have appointed Hugo Chávez Arévalo as general manager of the state-owned company Petroperú so that he can decide on the millionaire contracts. One of them was the favor for 47 million dollars to the company Heaven Petroleum Operators (HPO) for 280,000 barrels of biodiesel. The operation became a reality when the owner of the aforementioned company, Samir Abudayeh, had a meeting with Castillo at the Government Palace.

Castillo’s legal defense has resorted to the Judiciary to present a brief, to which the voice of america agreed, which indicates that none of the crimes of which the Public Ministry accuses the president -which are criminal organization, influence peddling and collusion- is found in article 117 of the Constitution, which establishes what charges the chief can be charged with. of State in the exercise of its functions.

“Only because he is a peasant who has come here, we have to knock him down no matter what. As he is a peasant, a rural school worker, we have to create folders for him, we have to pull his family, the Palace workers, force him and tell him: become an effective collaborator because we are going to pay you millions of soles. That you are threatened by the president,” Castillo said in a direct attack on the Public Ministry on Tuesday, from Lima.

Before Castillo’s judicial appeal, Congress has resorted to the Constitutional Court to establish which entity is responsible for qualifying or not the constitutional complaint against the president: the Legislative or the Judicial Power.

“President Pedro Castillo is in a situation to defend himself and within them he obstructs some activities that we have to do. In Congress we are going to take what corresponds as developed by the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations. I hope there are no obstacles on his part,” José Williams, head of Parliament, told reporters.

On October 24, the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations, which analyzes the alleged constitutional infractions of different state public officials, will issue a preliminary report on whether or not it admits the complaint against Castillo, which could have its final verdict in approximately three months.

It should be mentioned that the president is also being investigated for irregular promotions in the Armed Forces and the National Police in November of last year and for an “alleged cover-up” to avoid catching fugitives from his government.

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