Judge Johnny Gómez rescheduled for this Sunday, August 28, at 4 in the afternoon, the hearing in which he will announce his decision regarding the prosecutor’s request for 36 months of preventive detention for Yenifer Paredespresident’s sister-in-law peter castleand to Jose Nenil Medinamayor of the chotano district of Anguía, in Cajamarca.
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The session had been called for 6 pm and started about two and a half hours later and only lasted a few minutes. ANDProsecutor Jorge García Juárez expressed concern about the judge’s decision, while Yenifer Paredes’s lawyer agreed with the decision. The president’s sister-in-law will continue to be detained until the judge issues the resolution.
See here the judge’s reasons for suspending the hearing.
The Special Team of Prosecutors Against Corruption in Power investigates Yenifer Paredes and José Nenil Medina as alleged members of a criminal network within the Ministry of Housing, which would be led by Pedro Castillo. They attribute the function of ‘lobbyist’ to the president’s sister-in-law; and the mayor of Anguía, the operator.
In the hearings where the request was upheld, the deputy prosecutor Jorge García Juárez explained that the function of Yenifer Paredes would be to search for and attract mayors to offer them that sanitation works in their localities be financed quickly. This, according to the Public Ministry, in exchange for Hugo Espino’s facade companies being hired to prepare the technical file and for the execution of the project.
As for the mayor of Anguía, his alleged role in the network would be to attract businessmen to be awarded a project in his municipality, presumably in exchange for receiving gifts: businessman Hugo Espino, for example, declared having given him S / 200 thousand soles .
A close relationship with Pedro Castillo is also attributed to him, to the point that they point him out as part of the “shadow cabinet” that operated to put officials in key positions in the State.
The Public Ministry also argued that there is a risk that both investigated will escape and obstruct the investigations, in particular due to their links with the president and with the political power of the alleged criminal organization within the Executive. For this, they considered his preventive detention necessary.
To support all this, documentation of the tenders, bank deposit reports, findings during the raids, flight reports, witness statements and those investigated, intelligence reports, etc. were presented as evidence. For its part, the defense of both investigated rejected all investigations and assured that both Yenifer Paredes and José Nenil Medina are willing to collaborate with the tax investigations.
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Watch the hearing on August 23 here:
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