Peru’s Public Prosecutor’s Office has warned that former President Pedro Castillo began to negotiate an asylum request in Mexico for his wife, Lilia Paredes, as early as August 2022, several months before the frustrated attempt to arrogate more functions to himself, which led to his dismissal and arrest.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office has transferred this information in the framework of an investigation, advanced by the newspaper ‘El Comercio’, which points out that the presidential undersecretary Beder Camacho would have been in charge of managing the asylum with the Mexican authorities.
According to this information, Camacho met in mid-August with the Venezuelan ambassador in Lima, Alexander Yáñez, to arrange the asylum not only for Paredes, but also for the former Minister of Transportation Juan Silva and Fray Vásquez, Castillo’s nephew.
In this meeting, Yáñez would have told Camacho the predisposition of the Venezuelan authorities to grant political asylum to Paredes, Silva and Vásquez, although he also recommended him to contact the Mexican diplomatic authorities.
According to ‘La República’, the Prosecutor’s Office has presented these conversations between Camacho and Yáñez as an argument to support its request for the request of preventive imprisonment against Paredes, as they consider that it confirms that he had already tried to evade justice even before the expulsion of Castillo as president.
Paredes and his sons are currently in Mexico, where they have been granted political asylum in the context of the case opened in Peru against him for accusations of participating in a criminal organization.
Peruvian authorities gave their approval for Castillo and his children to be granted asylum in Mexico, although they warned that they would file an extradition request at any time if Lima deemed it appropriate.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)