Prosecutors: Hugo Espino threatened to say he was pressured to testify against alleged criminal organization

Yesterday, during a hearing in support of pre-trial detention against José Medina, the mayor of Anguia, the prosecutor Jorge Garcia convicted before a magistrate Johnny Gomez Balboa what is researched Hugo Espino It was threatened suspected criminal organization to denounce in their statements the pressure from the prosecutor’s office.

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According to prosecutor Garcia, in the audio recording, which he could not present in court for legal reasons, Espino would say that he received pressure through the press, prosecutors and the national police to make allegations against alleged members of a criminal network investigated by a government ministry that includes Jose Medina, Yennefer Paredes, First Lady, among others.

“I must mention what the lawyer presented today regarding audio which was given and allowed to express its content (…), said that Mr. Espino Lucana expressed who felt the pressure, the threat both from the press, and from the police and the public ministry,” he said before the judge of the Third Preparatory Investigation Court.

In his speech, he said that he denied such an argument, since it was he who received the testimony of the businessman under investigation.

“I do negation (…) because it was this representative of the State Department who accepted the statement of Mr. Espino, and the brave and honest police officers who accompanied me in the investigation, in order to obtain and give peace of mind to the defendant who submitted to the investigation. sincere confession”, held.

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In this sense, he stated that Hugo Espino threatened by an alleged criminal organization that “uses his power and his strength.”

“And what does a criminal organization do? communicates with him and pressuring him and threatening him, and what should Mr. Espino say? He has to respond to pressure from a criminal organization that felt pressured, so he said what he said,” he said.

The prosecutor clarified that the audio recordings “provided by the defense”, in which the businessman stated that he was under pressure, “should be interpreted in such a way that members of a criminal organization tried to contact a person who courageously submitted to a sincere confession.

“He said that they put pressure on him because yes (…) and in order to save himself from this pressure, so that this criminal organization does not harm you, had to say yes that the answers he gave were due to pressure. But they refuse this story because these statements (…) have been confirmed, contain validity and have absolute validity.

last Monday, Benji Espinoza, first lady’s lawyer interview RPP Newssaid Hugo Espino He would have been pressured to press charges against Yennefer Paredes and President Pedro Castillo’s wife.

“You must understand that Hugo Espino he suffered in prison, he suffered in custody. Is the person who is subjected to pressure. People are psychologically bent, they are psychologically defeated. I saw cases where people bowed down, failed, were subjected to psychological pressure and said that they were figureheads,” he said.

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