Within the framework of the constitutional complaint -for rebellion- presented by the Prosecutor’s Office against former ministers Betssy Chávez, Roberto Sánchez and Willy Huerta; The ex-president Pedro Castillo received a list of questions, days ago, to give his testimony as a witness in the case.
Witness reveals participation of Betssy Chávez in Pedro Castillo’s failed coup
A witness who was present when the former president read his message to the Nation on December 7 incriminates the former president. She indicated that Chávez planned to publish a supreme decree after the announcement.
The former president had previously been summoned, on several occasions, to the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations (SAC) – chaired by legislator Lady Camones (Alliance for Progress) – to be heard.
However, Castle he did not appear for any of the summonses. Faced with this situation, the head of the working group sent a list of eleven questions to Barbadillo (Ate) so that they can be answered in writing by him.
Betssy Chávez supported Castillo in a failed coup, according to a witness
Witness revealed to the Prosecutor’s Office that, before an attempt was made to carry out a coup, the former premier told him that they would restructure the State.
The former Head of State remains in the aforementioned penitentiary due to the coup to which he incurred, on December 7, and which earned him an 18-month preventive detention by Judge Juan Carlos Checkley Soria.
Despite this, the rural teacher remained silent again and affirmed, consecutively, that each question asked was “trick.”
The constitutional accusation that accuses Pedro Castillo as the leader of a criminal organization
The final report places the reclusive former president as the planner, director and controller of a corruption scheme thanks to the power he held during his presidency. Now the Prosecutor’s Office must file a formal accusation before the Judiciary
“I refrain from declaring under art. 170 number 6 of the NCPP being a trick question since it cannot be determined if my response is as a defendant or a witness. Likewise, according to art. 139.2 of the Constitutionindicates that authority cannot be invoked in the face of a process that is already under judicial review,” the text released by RPP specifies.
Subsequently, the response continues alleging “duplicity” in this investigation: “Being the case that the events of December 7, 2022 are in full investigation, before the preparatory investigation judge 39-2022; and, in addition, with an 18-month preventive detention order. Existing a duplicity of investigation: one by the Congress and another for him Power of attorney”.
In total, the list of questions transferred from the Subcommittee, according to El Comercio, were the following:
- When and why did you decide to close the Congress of the republic and intervene in the entities of the justice system and arrest the nation’s prosecutor?
- Who prepared and what was the procedure for the approval of the messages to the nation?
- If you or who prepared and drafted the message to the nation that you issued on December 6, 2022?
- If it was you or who, the person who elaborated the message to the nation of December 7, 2022?
- With whom coordinated the closure of the Congress of the Republic on December 7, 2022?
- Who did he summon? Government palace to be present at the moment when the congress of the republic was closed and for what reasons?
- If you ordered the former premier Betssy Chavez Chinobring to the place where the message would be issued to the closing nation of the Congress two journalists from the state channel who were outside the government palace?
- At what point did you inform Betssy Chinese Chavez who would issue a message to the nation on December 7, 2022?
- At what point did you inform Anibal Torres Vasquez, Willy Huertas Oliva and Emilio Gustavo Bobbio that he would issue a message to the nation of the closure of Congress and other measures on December 7, 20227
- If the former Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism, Roberto Sanchez PalominoDid you come up to greet him after the message to the nation closing the Congress of the Republic?
- After the message of the OT day of December 2022, what documents did the former Minister of Defense give you, Gustavo Bobbio Rosasfor you to sign?
