The First Lady Lilia Paredes was denounced this Friday by refusing to testify as a witness without previously listening to the questions of the Money Laundering Prosecutor Luz Taquire. The fact, according to the document to which El Comercio had access, was referred to a criminal prosecutor’s office in Lima Centro.
According to the official letter, the wife of President Pedro Castillo was denounced for the alleged crime against the public administration of refusal to collaborate with justice). This crime is punishable up to “deprivation of liberty for not more than two years or with community service of twenty to thirty days.”
MIRA: First Lady Lilia Paredes remains silent during the interrogation of prosecutor Luz Taquire
In the document, sent to the Parties Table of the Lima criminal prosecutor’s offices, it is stated that information is sent in a sealed envelope “regarding the refusal to provide a statement by the witness Lilia Paredes Navarro, so that the corresponding prosecutor’s office evaluates what that corresponds” on the aforementioned crime.
The decision to open an investigation or not to Pedro Castillo’s wife for these events is now in the hands of the Fifth Criminal Prosecutor’s Office of the Cercado de Lima.
The prosecutor Luz Taquire had summoned Lilia Paredes as part of the proceedings to corroborate the statements of the effective collaborator Karelim López. However, according to sources from El Comercio, the first lady refused to testify.
The defense of Lilia Paredes, the sources indicated, invoked for this her right to remain silent so as not to answer questions that could be incriminating for her or her relatives. However, the prosecution warned that this right can be invoked after having heard the questions, not before, for what they considered to have committed the crime.
César Pérez, one of Karelim López’s lawyers who was present at the proceeding as a party, corroborated this version in dialogue with El Comercio. He indicated that the objections were raised by Jorge Díaz Campos. his lawyer in the diligence, while Lilia Paredes only spoke to say his name.