A Panorama report revealed the short written answers provided by the President of the Republic, Pedro Castillo, to the questioning sent by the money laundering prosecutor Luz Taquire Reynoso in relation to the statements made by the lobbyist Karelim López to the Public Ministry.
“I don’t remember, I don’t know, I don’t know”: were some of the many concise responses of the head of state and that shows his little collaboration in the framework of the investigations carried out in the Prosecutor’s Office on alleged crimes in the Government environment.
When asked regarding the last communication he had with the former Secretary General of the Government Palace Bruno Pachecothe head of state only managed to respond “I don’t remember”.
At another time, he was asked regarding the knowledge he had regarding the good pro that the Ministry of Transport and Communications gave to the Puente Tarata III Consortium. “I don’t know”, he replied.
“(Say if you know what your nephew, the investigated Fray Vásquez Castillo, does for a living) I don’t know”, reads another part of the document.
President Castillo did agree to meet the businessman karelim lopez and revealed that he visited him in the presidential office on two occasions. However, the head of state had previously contradicted himself regarding these meetings.
The Sunday newspaper recalled that on January 24, during the CNN interview with Fernando del Rincón, Castillo Terrones had mentioned that he did receive López Arredondo. Later, before the prosecutor Karla Zecenarro he denied it and now he accepts it once more.
After that, the president returned to his strategy and continued to respond as he had from the beginning: “I don’t know, I don’t remember, I don’t know”.
Investigation to Pedro Castillo
The National Prosecutor, Paul Sanchezdecided to open a preliminary investigation of President Pedro Castillo for the alleged crimes of criminal organization aggravated influence peddling and aggravated collusion “without prejudice to other” crimes that may be detected during the course of the investigations, within the framework of the Tarata III Bridge case.
The Public Ministry explained that Castillo Terrones has been incorporated into the investigation that Sánchez ordered, at the beginning of May, once morest the former Minister of Transport and Communications Juan Silva and six congressmen from Acción Popular, accused by the businesswoman Karelim López as “The Children ”.