“The leader of Deep Peru”: Castillo prepares his sister-in-law ex-convict Yenifer Paredes as his successor

One year and four months after the left-wing Pedro Castillo assumed the Presidency, 59% of Peruvians think he is involved in acts of corruption, according to the Institute of Peruvian Studies (IEP).

In other words, one of the pollsters friendliest to the current government shows dismal numbers for Castillo and his entourage.

But one of the most paradigmatic cases in the endless corruption schemes of the communist is that of his sister-in-law Yenifer Paredes Navarro, who is also legally his stepdaughter since he adopted her after marrying his current wife, Lilia Paredes.

Castillo and his wife Lilia Paredes face six tax investigations, a record for a sitting president in Peru and Latin America.

Several of his close collaborators and family members have been accused by the justice system, including Yenifer Paredes, his wife’s younger sister.

It is a person who has been doing “field work”, that is to say, assisting, for example, in the community of Succha, talking to the villagers about specific projects, but according to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, her work was more linked to that of a lobbyist for the government.

The investigation denounces that she was in charge of looking for and attracting mayors from different localities of the country to offer them speed for the financing of their sanitation projects, on condition that the technical files were formulated through companies allied to Castillo, from which the president would receive bribes through overpricing.

The Prosecutor’s Office sustains this accusation in the finding in one of his homes of a bag containing 14 round seals of different local authorities, in addition to witnesses who assure that they met in these tours through towns of the interior.

On Tuesday, August 9, the judiciary issued a 10-day preliminary arrest warrant for Yenifer Paredes, and the prosecutor’s office deployed an extensive operation to find her.

The operation included a raid on the presidential palace, something unprecedented in Peru. The forces of law and order had never before accessed the seat of the executive power to carry out an arrest in another stage of the republican history of the Latin American country.

According to the report N° 58-2022- DIRSEEST-PNP-DIVSEPRE/DEPESEG, which contains the result of intelligence actions of the police, Yenifer Paredes Navarro arrived in Lima on August 5, 2022, coming from Cajamarca, going to the Government Palace.

On August 6, it is known – by activities deployed in the place and by other intelligence sources – that the accused remained in the presidential residence, repeating the same situation on August 7 and 8.

Thus, upon learning that the accused was still in residence, the Public Prosecutor’s Office prepared to conduct the search and execute the preliminary detention authorized by the court.

However, Castillo ordered to delay the officers’ entrance for more than an hour. It should not surprise anyone that the president’s sister-in-law was not found in the palace.

After more than 24 hours on the run from justice, Paredes turned herself in to the prosecutor’s office on Wednesday, August 10.

Everything indicates that she was in the Presidential Palace and escaped in desperation.

That is not minor since Pedro Castillo, in his capacity as president, would have committed the crime of obstructing justice by not handing her over, in addition to the disappearance of the images from the security cameras of the Government Palace on the day of the raid.

Five days after Yenifer Paredes turned herself in, Hugo Espino Lucana and Anggi Espino Lucana (owners of the company indicated as a front where Yenifer Paredes worked) turned themselves in as repentant, seriously damaging the situation of the president’s sister-in-law.

Something curious since Yenifer Paredes had declared on July 22 of this year in the Auditing Commission of the Congress of the Republic that her role in Espino Lucana’s company was only that of a census taker.

Last September 6, the Third Court of National Preparatory Investigation declared the request for preventive imprisonment by the Prosecutor’s Office well-founded and left her detention in force.

However, after several months of pressure on the justice system, the Second National Criminal Court of Appeals revoked the measure on October 24 by a majority of only one vote, and Yenifer was released.

Now, from the president’s entourage, Yenifer is being prepared as the next leader of his party and is positioned as one of the main leaders of the ruling party, nicknamed “the leader of Deep Peru”, where extreme poverty, indigenism, communist guerrilla groups, and the president’s party prevail.

With information from Derecha Diario