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Juan Peña, lawyer for the suspended prosecutor of the Nation, Patricia Benavides, reported that he will report to the Public Ministry for not giving him the prosecutor’s file to know the charges that are being brought against her, within the framework of the investigation of an alleged entrenched criminal organization. at the highest levels of the institution.
In dialogue with RPP, he indicated that he will file a complaint with the National Board of Justice (JNJ) and a protection of rights in the Judiciary and in the National Control Authority (ANC) of the prosecutor’s office itself.
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“By a resolution from El Peruano we learned that Dr. Delia Espinoza has an investigation against Dr. Benavides, to which we presented a written appearance to read the file today and find out the charges against her.” , he expressed.
“However, they have told us that we cannot access the tax file because they are just going to provide the appearance documents, which contradicts what article 70 of the Criminal Procedure Code says, that those investigated or accused have the fundamental right to take access to information about the charges against him,” he added.
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Peña indicated that he will file various actions, such as a complaint before the JNJ and a protection of rights in the Supreme Court, as well as in the Investigative Court and also before the National Control Authority of the Public Ministry.
Statements by the lawyer of the suspended National Prosecutor. Patricia Benavides. (Video: RPP TV)
As recalled, Supreme Prosecutor Delia Espinoza will investigate the senior officials involved in the alleged criminal organization led by the suspended National Prosecutor, Patricia Benavides.
This was established by Resolution of the Prosecutor’s Office No. 024-2024-MP-FN, published last Friday in an extraordinary edition of the Legal Standards bulletin of the Official Gazette El Peruano.
According to the Special Team of Prosecutors against Corruption of Power (Eficcop), the alleged criminal network was established on July 1, 2022 under the leadership of Patricia Benavides, and made up of her advisors Jaime Villanueva Barreto and Abel Hurtado Espinoza.
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This network, according to the fiscal thesis, intended to influence the election of the Ombudsman with a view to ensuring that, in the event of a possible removal from the National Board of Justice, he would be the one who presided over the special selection commission of its members, as well as the disqualification of the former prosecutor of the Nation Zoraida Ávalos.
2024-01-08 17:23:29
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