Peru’s Public Prosecutor’s Office has asked Peru’s Supreme Court to order nine months of preventive detention against Congressman Freddy Diaz, accused of rape, a day after the Andean Congress refused to disqualify him for ten years.
«The Second Supreme Criminal Prosecutor’s Office requested before the Judiciary nine months of preventive detention against Congressman Freddy Diaz Monago, investigated for the alleged crime of rape,» the Public Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement released on the social network Twitter.
In its request for imprisonment, the Prosecutor’s Office has warned of the veracity of the documents that link the congressman with said crime, among which are videos, testimonies, as well as a police record or the expert reports subsequently ordered by the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
For this reason, the agency has calculated a «high probability of flight», which is why it considers preventive detention to be appropriate while Diaz is being tried. The hearing that will evaluate the request of the Prosecutor’s Office will be held this Thursday, January 12.
Previously, the Peruvian Congress has rejected the petition of the Subcommittee of Constitutional Accusations of the Congress (SAC), which proposed to disqualify Diaz for 10 years.
With 60 votes in favor of her disqualification, two against and 21 abstentions (distributed among all political forces, from left to right), the hemicycle has not reached the 66 votes needed to approve the SAC report, reported ‘El Comercio’.
Freddy Díaz, now a former member of the Alianza para el Progreso party, allegedly committed a crime of sexual violence by taking advantage of a female parliamentary worker when she was drunk to force her to have sex.
According to the newspaper ‘El Comercio’, the complainant reported that she was drinking alcohol with the congressman while they were talking about work issues. After that, taking advantage of her unconsciousness, the congressman allegedly committed the rape.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
