Peru Once again, political scandal took its course. National Prosecutor Patricia Benavides, is accused of being the head of a mafia organization that has consequences in the most unpopular Congress in the country’s recent history. Benavides does not want to be dragged into a crisis. Scored during an act of survivalConstitutional impeachment against interim president Dina Boluarte and its prime minister, Alberto Otárola, for the deaths of protesters who took to the streets in the south of the country to demand the resignation of the interim government in late 2022 and early 2023. Peruvians are observing this new struggle for political and institutional power. in astonishment. . “This case is like a Mexican soap opera,” said legislator Sandra Paredes.
It all started hours ago, when the Anti-Corruption Special Team intervened in the headquarters of the Public Ministry. Research focuses not only on Benavides, to his immediate advisors Alberto Hurtado Espinoza, Miguel Ángel Girado Isidro and especially Jaime Javier Villanueva Barreto. The second is the most agreed upon as a result of some conversations that shed light on the corruption mechanisms in the judiciary and legislative bodies. In one of the publicized speeches, Villanueva Barreto claimed that Benavides was his right-hand man who ensured the disqualification of the disgruntled prosecutor Zoraida Ávalos. This shadowy operator added a touch of comedy to the crisis. Cornered, he applied to a clinic in Lima, claiming to have health problems. Doctors denied this. The defendant left the stretcher he was sheltering in and surrendered to the police.
Prosecutors Pablo Sánchez and Juan Carlos Villena demanded Benavides’ resignation “so as not to influence the investigation.” He doesn’t want to give up his position. Boluarte challenged him by waiving his presidential immunity to face investigations. Minister of Justice and Human Rights Eduardo Arana Ysa said, “He is not afraid of being effectively demonstrated that he is not criminally responsible for the events that occurred.” Boluarte’s lawyer, Joseph Campos, considered the constitutional complaint to be a political reaction by the prosecutor. “a civil war” In the Public Ministry. Benavides’ complaint “It has neither head nor tail.”
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The dispute is currently open-ended. Congress is silent. Lima newspaper Trade He commented in his editorial as follows: “Mrs Benavides cannot continue” in his position. “The fact that he and his advisors are involved in an investigation into an alleged criminal organization is already enough to demand his departure.” Suspending prosecutor Marita Barreto from her work to advance investigations “also demonstrates obstruction of justice.”
Trade He also demanded the resignation of Ombudsman Josué Gutiérrez, who was involved in scandalous conversations. “Revealed conversations show that his appointment, which was in doubt from the beginning because he was unfit for office, largely responded to a negotiation between Villanueva Barreto (presumably acting on behalf of Benavides) and a significant number of parliamentarians.”
The deaths that occurred as a result of the protests highlighted in the broadcast should have been investigated a long time ago, but in this case the suspicion that this was a counter-attack by the Attorney General is still in the air. “There is no room to talk about left or right here; The earthquake, which shook the Public Ministry and whose repercussions were reflected in other institutions, will come to an end in the coming days. But for now, facts dictate Benavides’ departure. Its continuity is unsustainable.”
According to this Republic The charges against the attorney general and his three chief advisors are extremely serious. “Congress, which constitutes the third leg of the table in this issue, did not have any institutional position despite the fact that there were 35 deputies who would be pressured to vote in favor of the agenda items. With the proposal to the prosecutor to eliminate the complaints against them in the processes followed by the Public Ministry,” it was said.