Peru’s Supreme Court will evaluate on November 16 whether or not the president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, can be investigated by the Attorney General’s Office after being constitutionally denounced before Congress for alleged corruption.
In a virtual hearing, the Peruvian Supreme Court will analyze the appeal presented by the president in which he alleges that he cannot be tried because he has immunity as head of state, as reported by RPP radio station.
The court, presided by Supreme Judge César San Martín, has ordered to notify the parties: the president of Peru and his lawyers, the Attorney General’s Office and the General State Prosecutor’s Office.
The head of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, Patricia Benavides, constitutionally denounced Castillo before the country’s Congress for his alleged involvement in a corruption case.
According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, Castillo would be the head of a criminal organization active in the Ministry of Transportation and Communications in complicity with Silva, as well as with officials of Provías Nacional and Provías Descentralizado, of the Presidential Office and of businessmen and third parties, to favor the consortium Puente Tarata III and other companies in public bidding processes.
After this accusation, Castillo affirmed that he is suffering a political persecution, at the same time that he has denounced a «new modality of coup d’état».
«Today we have a political Prosecutor’s Office in Peru, that far from judging the real criminals, today is doing it with the Government that has been legitimately elected by the people to lead the destiny of the country», said the President in a press conference, adding that «in the country the execution of a new modality of coup d’état has begun».
