The first lady of Peru, Lilia Paredes, said Thursday that the arrival of Peruvian President Pedro Castillo to the government was to «do a clean and honest job», and regretted that they are described as «criminals».
«We have not come to do anything, we have come to do a clean, honest work, we are not criminals as many people qualify us, that is the shame and sadness that gives me, that people talk like that,» said Paredes in statements reported by the Andina news agency.
In this sense, she confessed to feeling happy after the release from prison of her sister Yenifer Paredes, whom she considers as «a daughter».
«She is my daughter and I will always be happy because we know that she has done nothing, she has always been concerned about the neediest and that is what we do every day, (…) people are misinformed, the press misinforms», said the Peruvian first lady, according to the aforementioned agency.
Paredes insisted that her sister-in-law, who is being investigated by the Attorney General’s Office for alleged corruption, had only dedicated herself to «doing her job for the people who need it most».
The sister of the Peruvian first lady was released last Wednesday from the women’s prison of Chorrillos, in the province of Lima, after almost two months of being interned in that prison after the Attorney General’s Office requested preventive detention to the Judiciary, alleging that she was a flight risk.
The sister of the Peruvian first lady is being investigated after a video was broadcast in which she is allegedly seen offering a sanitation project to the residents of the Succha community, as reported by RPP radio station.
