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(CNN Spanish) --
José Fernández Latorre, former head of Peru's National Intelligence Directorate, said Tuesday in an interview with Panamericana TV that he warned President Pedro Castillo about the alleged acts of corruption committed by members of his family and your closest environment.
The National Intelligence Directorate reports to the president and is attached to the presidency of the Council of Ministers.
CNN contacted the Government Palace to obtain its version, but has not yet received a response.
However, in a statement from the Government Palace this Tuesday night, Castillo said that he is not corrupt and that despite what a former official says "he would never betray my people."
This Wednesday, Congress will vote for the third time on a vacancy motion that seeks to remove the president from power due to "permanent moral incapacity."
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Pedro Castillo has six investigations opened by the Public Ministry for alleged acts of corruption committed during his government.
The Prosecutor's Office assures that he is the leader of a criminal organization, something that the president has denied.
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Fernández Latorre said in the interview that he had denounced Bruno Pacheco, former Secretary General of the Presidential Office, before President Castillo, who turned himself in to justice in July.
Pacheco is being investigated for allegedly belonging to the criminal organization led by the president.
The former intelligence chief also referred to Alejandro Sánchez, owner of the house in Pasaje Sarratea, from where Pedro Castillo dispatched the first days of his government.
Sánchez is being investigated for allegedly being part of a shadow cabinet and from underground he has denied the accusations that, in the framework of the fiscal investigation against him, also point to him for the alleged crime of criminal organization.
One of the president's nephews was also mentioned.
His name is Fray Vásquez Castillo, also a fugitive from Justice, and accused of belonging to the criminal organization led by his uncle, according to the Prosecutor's Office.
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Vásquez Castillo's lawyer has denied any responsibility on the part of his client.
The former head of the National Intelligence Directorate, who turned himself in to the Prosecutor's Office on November 25, is being investigated for the case known as "Petroperú", one of the six for which President Pedro Castillo has an open investigation.
The Public Ministry is investigating alleged irregularities in the purchase of biodiesel by Petroperú.
Fernández Latorre, who was released seven days after appearing before the Prosecutor's Office, is accused of allegedly having helped the president to evade Justice.
Fernández Latorre said that he was accused of having "met in the presidential office with the president" to disappear evidence of alleged irregular acts such as the flight of people investigated by the prosecutor's office.
Fernández Latorre refers to Juan Silva, former Minister of Transportation, and Fray Vásquez Castillo, one of the president's nephews.
The prosecutors' theory is that these two people, as well as others investigated and who were part of Castillo's closest circle, would be part of a criminal organization led by the president.
Silva's lawyer has assured that his defendant is innocent.
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The former intelligence chief assures that Silva and Vásquez fled on the orders of President Pedro Castillo.
Fernández Latorre added that he is collaborating with the Prosecutor's Office in the investigations and that he even delivered audios that prove his allegations.
He explained that the position he held prevented him from making the facts public, but since he was detained and not currently subject to the laws that regulate his previous position, he decided to tell what he knew.
Fernández Latorre also pointed out that people from the president's closest environment asked him for money from the budget item of the institution to which he belonged and which is reserved.
He denounced that he received another of the president's nephews at the request of the president himself and that he asked for half a million dollars "to hire an adviser of Russian origin with intelligence knowledge who was going to manage a donation of 30 million dollars and that when come those 30 million they were going to return half a million dollars ”.
Fernández Latorre assures that he informed President Castillo of this, who, according to what he said, “was speechless” and did not know what to say to him.
Fernández Latorre refers to Rubdel Oblitas Paredes, against whom a judge ordered an impediment to leave the country.
This nephew-in-law of President Castillo is being investigated by the Public Ministry for the alleged crime of aggravated collusion in the case known as Puente Tarata, one of the six cases for which the president is investigated, and through which the delivery of public works fraudulently.
CNN has not been able to reach him.
Fernández Latorre also stressed that, after his warnings, he does not excuse the president's actions.
"The tears of my youngest son for being locked up, for an act that I have not committed and that this man continues in the palace despite what intelligence warned him from the first moment, I will not forgive him or him for that." nobody”, he concluded in the interview for Panamericana TV.
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