Peru’s National Penitentiary Institute (INPE) has informed this Friday that former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo will be transferred to a prison in Lima, after the Judiciary ordered 18 months of preventive detention against him.
«The Technical Classification Board of the INPE (…) has determined that the defendant Pedro Castillo Terrones will be classified in the Ordinary Regime,» the INPE announced in a statement, detailing that the former president will be transferred to the Barbadillo Prison, in Ate, on the outskirts of Lima.
In this way, Castillo will serve 18 months of preventive detention in the same prison where former president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) is serving a 25-year sentence for crimes against humanity, according to RPP radio station.
On Thursday, Peru’s Supreme Court of Preparatory Investigation ordered 18 months of preventive detention against the former president while he is being investigated for allegedly committing crimes of rebellion, conspiracy, abuse of authority and disturbing public tranquility.
The Peruvian Justice issued this way a favorable resolution on the request of the Prosecutor’s Office to detain the former president preventively for a period of 18 months, all this after finding the accusations founded that could suppose for Castillo a sentence of more than four years, according to the same organism in a communiqué.
In addition, the decision is also based on the possibility that Castillo, who has requested political asylum from Mexico’s ambassador in Peru, is in danger of fleeing the country, according to Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in a press conference.
Castillo had been detained until now at the Directorate of Special Operations (Diroes) of the Peruvian National Police, in the outskirts of Lima.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
