President peter castle sent a notarized letter to the journalist Rossana Cuevadirector of the Panorama program, to “demand” within 24 hours that the content of the report titled ‘The suitcase and the envelopes for peter castle‘ in which allegedly the former secretary Bruno Pacheco betrays the delivery of money in the Government Palace.
“According to the report and your statements, I demand your rectification and I order you to proceed to read the notarial letter. Everything mentioned by you is false (…) I request you to read this notarial letter in the corresponding dimensions so that it can be rectified for the unfortunate statements made without any evidence,” he said.
In response, the journalist Rossana Cueva questioned that the head of state “ordered” a rectification of the Panorama journalistic team, despite the fact that the report in question cites one of his former trusted officials, who is in a process of effective collaboration with the Public ministry.
“Who wrote that? Whoever did it defines in those lines a king of the past or an autocrat who can order above the law what provokes him and not what corresponds to him. peter castle holds the highest position in the Nation, a position that does not give him the authority or the power to order what a journalist can say,” he reproached.
“Like any citizen, he can request, he can demand, he can sue, but never order. He can even initiate a judicial process of defamation, and if it is favorable for him, a judge can order the rectification and he knows better than anyone that this It is not the case, that there is nothing to rectify here. What Pacheco said has been confirmed by other media, “he added.
In interview with Panoramainvestigative journalist Ricardo Ucedaa member of the Press and Society Institute (IPYS), joined the criticism of the president peter castle by the tenor of the notarial letter sent to the journalistic team of this television program from which he demanded a rectification.
“It is an unusual letter, extreme within what Castillo himself has done in this year of government because what you (Panorama) have done is to reveal information, which was a first, regarding what an effective collaborator would have said about the alleged illegal activities of President Castillo,” he said.
“The serious thing is that he, as if he were the president of a dictatorship who addresses a media outlet and says ‘I order you to read the letter’. This is extreme within the extremes that the Government has already accustomed us to. That is really inadmissible, it reveals the little understanding he has of the legal order and it is something that has to be rejected and regretted that there is a ruler with such a distant understanding of the legal order,” he added.
Bruno Pacheco assured that Pedro Castillo received illicit money
The former secretary of the Government Palace, Bruno Pacheco, stated before the Public Ministry that the president peter castle received illicit money for bribes. In accordance with Panoramathe president was given money in a briefcase by the former Minister of Transport and Communications, Juan Silva.
Bruno Pacheco He surrendered to justice and stated in his testimony before the prosecutors that he allegedly received irregular payments both for himself and for the head of state in exchange for the appointment of Hugo Chávez Arévalo as head of Petroperú.
According to Panorama, Bruno Pacheco declared that the money came from Fermín Silva, a chotano and owner of La Luz Clinic, very close to the government of peter castle and who wanted Chávez Arevalo to enter Petroperú.
The amounts would be 15,000 soles for Pacheco and 30,000 soles for the head of state, according to Pacheco’s testimony, today living in a house protected by the Public Ministry. All this, always according to the journalistic note, to guarantee the appointment of Hugo Chávez, who finally resigned after a few months.
In response, the president peter castle was pronounced after the Sunday Panorama revealed that he received 30,000 soles to obtain the appointment of Hugo Chávez Arévalo as head of Petroperú. The president denied these accusations and assured that he will file a complaint against the program.
“I categorically reject the false accusations that the program emits Panorama pointing out that he would have received a “reward” of 30 thousand soles. In honor of journalistic truth, I demand a serious investigation to clarify this falsehood,” reads the president’s official Twitter account.
“Exercising my right as a citizen and as President of the Republic, I will proceed to denounce the aforementioned journalistic production that spreads false news whose sole purpose is to deceive and manipulate citizens,” added the head of state.
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