Lawyer Pedro Castillo emphasizes refusal to investigate plagiarism: “It was a paraphrase that should not have been presented”

Lawyer Jose Luis Palomino ManchegoPresidential counsel Pedro Castillo, welcomed the Tacabamba prosecutor’s decision to no longer file a preliminary investigation against President and First Lady Lilia Paredes Navarro for the alleged crime of plagiarism against public belief.

“It was a rehashing of rehashings, which in no case could be presented simply and simply because there was a rush, like a kind of witch hunt, and most importantly: to discuss academic issues, when deep down those who started all this, no even, I say it with respect, a professional title,” the lawyer said in the program Things as they are RPP.

Manchego Palomino stated that the decision prosecution It is already final, because several prosecutors have already seen it and just something already closed.

“This is the final decision, the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Crimes of Civil Servants has also seen it, that is, other prosecutors have already seen it. Therefore, I believe that this is not a shadow of a doubt, a final matter. Any prosecutor’s office will see this: “But it’s already over, it’s so simple. We can’t ask for elm pears. I don’t admit that you can appeal, any prosecutor can see it, suddenly another complaint will come out tomorrow, but this case is closed,” he added.

The lawyer emphasized that the investigation should not have been carried out, because the prosecutor’s office itself says so. In addition, he argued that at that time (when the dissertation was defended), the Turnitin program used to detect plagiarism did not exist.

public service in May last year, they launched an investigation against the president and his wife on charges of plagiarism of their Thesis get a master’s degree in Cesar Vallejo University (UCV). This has always been denied by the head of state.

Pedro Castillo A few months ago, he had to go to the prosecutor’s office to testify in this case, which was added to the other five trials that the president is following.

investigation is not ongoing

The Mixed Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of Tacabamba (Cajamarca region) ruled on Monday that it was inappropriate to file and continue a preliminary investigation against the president. Pedro Castillo and his wife Lilia Paredes for an alleged crime against public belief in the modality of a common lie. It’s about alleged plagiarism in his dissertation done in Cesar Vallejo University.

“Combine real tax file 313-2022 into tax file #126-2022. Therefore, initiate proceedings in the manner and form of the law,” the provincial prosecutor Juan Ramon Tantalean Olano said in a decree.