MADRID, 5 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office has included former Labor Minister Betssy Chávez and former Production Minister Jorge Prado in the investigation against former President Pedro Castillo for the alleged crimes of criminal organization, aggravated influence peddling and aggravated collusion, according to sources from ‘El Comercio ‘.
Likewise, another 20 congressmen from Acción Popular (AP) and Perú Libre (PL) would have been added to the case opened by former prosecutor Pablo Sánchez, who is investigating an alleged criminal network that operated in the Ministry of Transport and Communications led by Castillo.
The businesswoman Karelim López denounced the existence of an alleged mafia in the country’s Ministry of Transport and Communications and pointed Castillo as responsible, after which Sánchez opened the investigations in May against the former Minister of Transport and Communications Juan Silva and six congressmen from Acción Popularly known as ‘Los Niños’.
The Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office is investigating whether congressmen Raúl Doroteo, Elvis Vergara, Juan Carlos Moro, Jorge Luis Flores, Darwin Espinoza and Ilich López, all of them from Acción Popular, are part of an alleged criminal network that operated in the Ministry of Transport and Communications that would be led by Castle.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the alleged criminal organization had two groups with defined tasks. The first recruited and negotiated with businessmen and was made up of former Secretary General of the Presidency Bruno Pacheco, businessman Zamir Villaverde and two nephews of the president: Fray Vásquez Castillo and Gian Marco Castillo Gómez.
The second group would be responsible for the execution of the crime favoring certain companies in the contracts and would be made up of Provías Decentralized officials previously appointed by former Minister Silva. The Prosecutor’s Office maintains that the organization had a vertical structure, with members at different levels.
