The prosecutor’s office held a congressional trial in the case of Rosio Torres after condemning the reduction in the wages of its workers.

The Public Ministry began this Wednesday, March 5, procedures for collecting information within the preliminary investigation that Alianza para el Progreso (APP) deputy Rocío Torres Salinas is under investigation for an alleged crime shake.

That’s why he prosecutors arrived at the offices Congress review documentation supporting the allegations against Torres after Sunday end point stated that the legislator would compel her workers or former workers to set aside part of their wages for her nephew, Juan Daniel Perez Guerra.

“The Attorney General’s Office of the Nation has carried out procedures to collect information in Congress of the Republicas part of an investigation into congresswoman Rocio Torres Salinason charges of committing a crime of concussion,” the deputy said in a tweet.

Case

The journalistic report mentions the case of Cecilia Salazar Mattos, who was an adviser to Torres from July 2021 to August last year and during this period handed over to a relative of the parliamentarian about S/24,562.

According to Punto Final, Jesús Sierra Tapia, Rocio Torres’ chief adviser, wired S$4,400 to the same Torres relative last June. Both this worker and Salazar Mattos chose not to confirm the delivery of money to the Sunday program.

Another employee of the congressman, whose name has not been released, gave the program a receipt for the transfer it made to Juan Daniel Pérez’s account in the amount of SGD 6,850. In addition, she reported that the parliamentarian and her nephew forced “collaboration” to a third of the worker’s salary, and this amount doubles in the months when Congress pays them allowances and school allowances.

Abigail Garcia Diaz, who at the time served as assistant to the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations chaired by Torres, registers a transfer of 2,000 soles to Perez’s account.

They are joined by Cesar Macedo von Bancels, Torres’ office assistant, who transfers S$1,000 per month to the same relative of Torres; and Estefania Calvo Zúñiga, who registered a bond of S$2,000.

Following the dissemination of a journalistic complaint, the collegium of Alianza Para el Progreso expelled deputy Rocio Torres from the Ethics Commission. In addition, they demanded explanations from the parliamentarian on the case.