Pedro Castillo announces that he will be sworn in to the new Minister of Health this afternoon.

the president Peter’s castle announced this morning that the new Minister of Health will be sworn in this afternoon, Thursday. This confirmation was made during the Piura Master Plan Presentation Ceremony, which took place in Chulukanas.

In this regard, the Head of State stated that the successor Jorge Lopez as owner Ministry of Health (Minsa) one of its first tasks will be to supervise the execution of a hospital of high complexity for this region.

“We are going to come to see the release of the hospital, and therefore I also announce that in the afternoon let’s take an oath to the new Minister of Health so that his first task is to come to the Piura region to see the very sophisticated hospital that the region needs,” he told the audience.

In addition, he called on the executive director of the Reconstruction Office with changes, Robert Lopez, warn about cases of corruption that may take place in their management.

“Let’s do things right. And if you find an official who somehow wants to break the will of the government or wants to interfere (…) in budgets, you must expose him and condemn him before the people and before justice,” he said.

In addition, he pointed out that the master plan of Piura provides for the implementation of 125 measures with a budget of more than 5 billion soles, which will protect 500,000 inhabitants from the floods caused by El Niño Costero.

Without official registration of the departure of Jorge Lopez

Despite the fact that last Sunday the head of state announced his decision to “finish” Jorge López’s work as Minister of Health, four days later the official’s departure from the said sector has not yet been formalized.

“Given the facts disseminated by the media, in which the current Minister of Health appears, and in order to demonstrate absolute transparency in my government, I have decided to terminate his powers. I reaffirm my commitment to continue to work for the good of the country,” he wrote in Twitter that day.

This decision was announced after Sunday end point showed that Lopez he would order several workers in his sector to deposit thousands of sols into the same bank account in order to buy apartment in Lima for his family.

The report revealed that the minister also met with six workers on the fourth floor of the headquarters Minsa receive envelopes with money and instructions for depositing them on August 31 into the same bank account owned by Dervi Apaz Meza, the mother of Lopez’s children.

Also, despite the President’s decision, RPP news said that last Tuesday Jorge Lopez took part in a solemn event held in the yard Minsa in which, together with a group of parishioners, he carried a stretcher of the image of the Lord of Miracles.

The prosecutor’s office began a preliminary investigation

Yesterday, prosecutor’s office Decided to open a preliminary investigation within 60 days against Jorge Lopez as the alleged perpetrator of the crime of illicit enrichment to the detriment of the state.

Members last Tuesday Special group of prosecutors against government corruption They arrived at the office of the ex-partner, still the Minister of Health, to seize the property. The First National Preparatory Court of Inquiry recognized the petition of the public ministry as justified in connection with the danger of its transfer by the owner of the house.

According to the fiscal presumption, Dervi Khomeini Apaz MezaJorge López’s former partner would have purchased the property with “money from an illegal source deposited in their bank accounts by Dr. Luis Quito’s SAC company and the servers of the Ministry of Health.”

Accordingly, the bailiff ordered dispossession of property and, if required, the lock of the property located on the 13th floor of Av Cuba 1145, in the Jesus Maria area.