Transport Minister on Fry Vazquez’s alleged trip: ‘I was not warned about these trips’

Transport and Communications Minister Richard Tineo said that in his capacity former head of securitydid not have any information about the alleged trip that Fray Vasquez, a fugitive nephew of President Pedro Castillo, was supposed to make on June 23 aboard the presidential plane bound for Chiclayo (Lambayeque), according to the complaint Freedom Center.

After reviewing the work in Line 2 of Lima and Callao Metrothe head of the PTS indicated that he had just learned of the case and that the Peruvian Air Force (FAP) was the agency responsible for responding to the list of people who had boarded the presidential plane in recent months.

“I just became aware of this fact, I was not particularly warned about these trips. [cuando fui ministro de Defensa]. At the helm is the FAP … ”, he answered reporters.

Tineo, who took over Ministry of Defence From August 24 to September 23, he expressed the hope that the investigation would establish whether the relatives of the head of state boarded the presidential plane.

“There is a commission that considers [caso]. Yesterday there was an intervention [base aérea] group 8 and from there it will be seen whether relatives traveled. If it is necessary to take administrative or judicial action, they must be done within this framework,” he said.

“I hope that investigations will be carried out to establish whether the aircraft was used for this purpose,” he added.

Finally, the owner TCM announced that Government of Pedro Castillo will facilitate a possible preliminary investigation by the Department of State (DO).

Escape from the presidential plane?

Last Sunday, a report titled “Escape from the Presidential Plane?” portal Freedom CenterIt emerged that on the passenger list of the presidential plane’s flight to Chiclayo, the capital of the Lambayeque region, on June 23, “the name of one of the crew members registered as ‘nephew’ was highlighted.”

According to a passenger manifest obtained by a journalistic publication in accordance with the Transparency Law, there were 33 people on the plane, including government officials and members of the president’s family. The attention-getting name is the name of the person identified as Lay Vazquez Castillo with DNI 97069630, both data are missing from the registries of the National Identity and Civil Registry (Reniec).

Freedom Center states in his report that he is satisfied that presidential castle he does not have a nephew with that name, and the question arises as to the possibility that it is Fray Vázquez Castillo due to the similarity of the first name and the coincidence of the last names.

Brother Vasquezunder investigation for amalgamation of an alleged criminal organization that applied for a job at the Ministry of Transport and Communications, has an arrest warrant since last March and has been burdened with 36 months of preventive detention since April of this year.