Mariano Gonzalez on complaints to DINI: “They are destroying the intelligence community”

Mariano Gonzalez, the former interior minister, lamented on Monday the way the presidential government Peter’s castle in charge of the National Intelligence Agency (DINI). This, after a report in the newspaper Perú21, showed that Vladimir Serron will receive 40,000 soles as a supposed “special agent”.

“They are tearing the intelligence community to pieces. In this area, they don’t decide who should lead DINI – this is a specialist in providing strategic intelligence, ”he commented on the program. Everything is known from RPP news.

The former minister believed that Jose Luis Fernandez Latorre does not have the ability to manage DINI, and emphasized that if what an effective employee says about payments to Cerrón, as well Richard Rojas then he should go to jail.

“If it is verified and confirmed what this effective employee said, that, in addition to Cerron, Richard Rojas also receives a scholarship, this person will definitely end up in prison and will answer to the authorities. And before the Accounts Chamber, but, above all, to the US Congressional Intelligence Commission,” he said.

Mariano Gonzalez pointed out that the intelligence sector uses money to pay whistleblowers for certain data, but not for the purpose of paying rewards or increasing wages.

“It is legal for all intelligence components to dispose of funds to pay informants, collaborators and some other expenses, but the same rule states that these funds cannot be used for salaries or salary increases, personal expenses,” he said. . . .

The former head of the minister also claimed that it was “completely abnormal” to have a DINI office in the Government Palace that personally reports to President Pedro Castillo, according to Henry Shimabukuro. In this sense, he explained that he never coordinated with this man when he was a minister.

“In his absence, there is the National Intelligence Council, there is the National Defense and Security Council. There are other places where ministers are present, and we also have a kind of ongoing coordination through intelligence cores, which should be held at least once a week to provide the president with the necessary information,” he said.

DINI office in the palace

Henry Shimabukuro, who is being investigated by the prosecutor’s office for allegedly integrating the so-called “Shadow Cabinet” associated with the government of Pedro Castillo, testified to the Ministry of Public Power about the existence of an office of the National Intelligence Agency (DINI) inside the Government Palace. .

“I was a DINI employee and visited the Palace several times to introduce myself at the DINI office. It was about temporary issues, this information was sent to the DINI office located in the palace,” Shimabukuro told the Ministry of Public Information, Sunday’s Panorama newspaper reported.