Luis Lamas Puccio on request for preventive detention against Yenifer Paredes: “The elements of a guilty verdict are extremely strong”

Last Tuesday, a hearing was held in a pre-trial detention case against Yenifer Paredes, the sister-in-law of President Pedro Castillo, who is under investigation for alleged crimes of a criminal organization and money laundering to the detriment of the Peruvian state. After the meeting, which ended the day after the hearing of the case of Angia Mayor Jose Medina, Judge Johnny Gomez said that the public ministry’s request would be considered this Friday, August 26, at 18:00.

However, the criminal defense attorney Louis Lamas Puccio argued that elements of the conviction presented by prosecutor Jorge García Juárez “they are exceedingly strong” and more than meet the first of the necessary requirements to support this preventive coercive measure..

“After I listened to the arguments and arguments of the prosecutor’s office and the response of the lawyers who participated in the court session, it became clear to me that the elements of the guilty verdict are extremely strong, weighty and well supported by documents, factual facts, explanation in chronology, the way they interacted, banking and financial information, statements by other people that are part of the investigation The elements of the conviction have been strengthened, which is the first requirement to petition or order pre-trial detention,” he said in News extension from PTR.

Lamas Puccio explains that pre-trial detention requirements have been met

With regard to the forecast of punishment, which the prosecutor’s office estimated at least 23 years in prison, Lamas Puccio appealed to the gravity of the defendant’s crime Yennefer Paredes. It should be noted that article 268 of the Code of Criminal Procedure establishes the requirement that the probable punishment must exceed four years’ imprisonment.

“On the other hand, these are extremely serious crimes: money laundering, conspiracy, organized crime, for which you can get from 15 to 20 years in prison,” he added.

With regard to procedural danger, the criminal defense lawyer cited the former general secretary of the Government Palace, Bruno Pacheco, as background to the case; former Minister of Transport and Communications Juan Silva and President Pedro Castillo’s nephews, not to rule out the danger of flight.

“Taking into account other components, such as the case of Bruno Pacheco, Juan Silva or the president’s nephews, the flight factor cannot by any means be ruled out. that it is clear that they were not collaborators, that they did not want to help clarify the truth, and I also believe that they obstructed the work of the investigation,” he said.

In the same vein, he recalled what happened on August 9, when agents of the National Police of Peru and representatives of the National Prosecutor’s Office arrived at the headquarters of the Government Palace to unsuccessfully try to arrest Yenifer Paredes. Lamas Puccio He believed that this would not be a random event and that, in his opinion, there should have been coordination with the “higher spheres of power” to protect Castillo’s sister-in-law.

“I assume that there should have been close coordination with the highest echelons of power in order to try in every possible way, firstly, to interfere with the work of the police and the prosecutor’s office; secondly, the first reaction, not very well thought out, not well thought out. about hiding and avoiding arrest without being found or showing up,” she warned.

“Yenifer Paredes had little cooperation”

Finally, the lawyer emphasized that the fact that Yennefer Paredes delivered one day after the arrival of the prosecutor’s office in the Palacio does not mean that his attitude was evasive in the first place.

“There was little collaboration in the global analysis of this event. The fact that it was presented later does not in any way mean that it did not take a low profile at first,” he said.