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Peru: police raid at the presidential palace
Audio 7:30 p.m.
Peruvian President Pedro Castillo (Illustrative image).
The president's sister-in-law (Yenifer Paredes) is suspected of participating in a network of corruption and money laundering.
AP - Juan Karita
By: Marion Cazanove
2 mins
The crisis at the head of the Peruvian state is intensifying: the police have carried out searches at the presidential palace in Lima, in search of the sister-in-law of President Pedro Castillo.
She is suspected of participating in a network of corruption and money laundering.
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The Peruvian president's sister-in-law is on the run.
The prosecution and the police conducted a search within the presidential palace, in Lima, to arrest him … without success.
Yenifer Paredes is suspected of participation in a network of corruption and money laundering.
This is a first in the history of Peru, since justice until then had not penetrated the seat of the executive power to look for someone there.
President Pedro Castillo himself is targeted in corruption investigations.
The latter reacted to this search, during a televised speech: “
Today, the Government Palace and the Presidential Palace have been violated once again in an illegal raid endorsed by a judge, just as they are asking for my five-year disqualification to deprive the Peruvian people of their government. legit.
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