Institute of Press and SocietyIPY) expressed his opposition to the bill announced Governmentwhich punishes the dissemination of tax information in criminal cases.
The civil organization said in a statement that the measure would “affect all types of tax investigations,” which it considers “clearly unconstitutional.”
In addition, he considered that the project “would rather be consistent with an attempt to prevent denunciation of the regime’s numerous accused.”
IPY He said that he would wait until he had the text of the draft in order to speak more precisely on it.
It is worth mentioning that Federation of Journalists of Peru He also expressed his “categorical” rejection of the aforementioned bill, believing that this rule, if adopted, “would harm the work of investigative journalism.”
“We reject and condemn this kind of journalistic coercion and blackmail of those who tell the truth,” the union said in a statement.
Attack on press freedom
Head of Cabinet, Hannibal Torres, announced yesterday, Friday, the submission to Congress of a bill that creates the offense of disclosure of tax information in criminal matters. The norm, according to him, was approved at the last meeting Council of Ministers.
“A bill has been passed that qualifies the disclosure of confidential information during criminal investigations as a crime. The criminal investigation at its preliminary stage has been retained. It ceases to be reserved when it proceeds to the oral test. There it is public and there is no reservation, ”he said at a press conference.
Hannibal Torres He argued that such disclosure of confidential information should be avoided and specified that the penalty would be four years’ imprisonment.
“Today, it happens that in the course of investigations, confidential information quickly becomes public. Sometimes information is selected for the purpose of imputing the commission of a crime. This shouldn’t happen. That’s why we’re introducing a bill in Congress to put an end to this practice of selling sensitive criminal information. And this is even sanctioned in some cases by four years in prison,” he added.
It is worth noting that this bill was announced in advance by the Minister of Justice, Felix Chero, 13 June. The official assured that the measure was intended to “protect” the defendant’s presumption of innocence. investigated.
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