The Prosecutor of the Nation (general) of Peru, Patricia Benavidespresented on Friday a new constitutional complaint against the former president Pedro Castillo (2021-2022), who is in preventive prison for the failed self-coup and for a case of corruption, and his former Defense Minister, Walter Ayalafor a case of alleged irregular promotions in the Armed forces and the National Police.
“The National Prosecutor, Patricia Benavidesfiled a constitutional complaint against Pedro Castillo Terrones and Walter Ayala Gonzales for the case called promotions in the Armed forces and the National Police of the Peru», announced the Public Ministry on the social network X, formerly known as Twitter.
In another brief message, the institution added that both “are accused of being the alleged perpetrators of the crimes of abuse of authority, illegal sponsorship and own passive bribery, among others.”
Castle He is serving 18 months in pretrial detention in the Lima prison of Barbadillo for having failed self-coup on December 7, 2022, and this March the court ordered 36 more months for the alleged commission of the crimes of criminal organizationinfluence peddling and collusion.
The case of alleged irregular promotions in the Armed forces and the National Police It is about an alleged criminal organization that charged money in exchange for authorizing irregular promotions in the State security forces in 2021, under the alleged direction of Castle.
And it became known in August 2021, when the former general commanders of the Army Jose Vizcarraand the Air Force Jorge Chaparro They denounced that they were retired for not having acceded to pressure.
These pressures were allegedly exerted by the then Secretary General of the Government Palace, Bruno Pachecoby order of Castle and the ex-minister ayala.
As of the end of December 2022, the Division of Investigations of High Complexity Crimes (Diviac) of the PNP, at the request of the prosecutioncarried out a series of raids and arrests of police officers investigated in this case, among them, the retired general was arrested javier gallardoformer commanding general of the Police during the management of Castle.
Precisely, after the raid on his home, the former minister ayala He told journalists that he is “ready to investigate” the case, but considered that the fiscal intervention was “a show.”
“This has been unnecessary, they have not found anything,” he said before also questioning the ordering of preliminary arrests, since he considered that those involved should have been summoned to testify.
