The Subcommittee of Constitutional Accusations of the Peruvian Congress has admitted a constitutional complaint filed by the Public Prosecutor’s Office against the country’s president, Pedro Castillo, for his alleged leadership of a criminal organization.
The Permanent Commission of the Parliament has granted a term of two 15 working days to the aforementioned subcommission to investigate a final report on the constitutional complaint filed by the Peruvian prosecutor, Patricia Benavides.
Benavides, for her part, has recently defended this complaint before representatives of the Organization of American States during a visit to the Peruvian capital, Lima, and has assured that it is «false» that such complaint is motivated by political issues or that it is part of a «strategy to break the democratic order».
The Attorney General has specified that what has been presented contains 190 «elements of conviction on the existence of an alleged criminal organization entrenched in the Executive Power», product of a preliminary investigation authorized by the Peruvian Supreme Court.
According to Benavides, the constitutional complaint is «the only thing her office could do» at a procedural and constitutional level, adding that «it was her obligation» to present it after having gathered «sufficient evidence of the commission of crimes», the Attorney General’s Office itself has informed in a letter.
