Pedro Castillo attacked Congress during a hearing: “they are the first to ask for 500 million for their benches”

The ex-president Pedro Castillo He again denied being part of a criminal organization and blamed Congress and the press for his current imprisonment. “I categorically and categorically deny that I am the author and that I am part of a criminal network, the only crime I have committed is to serve my country as President of the Republic”, he said. -he claimed during today’s virtual hearing in which the prosecution is asking for 36 months of pre-trial detention.

“Today, a castle of crimes has been built with hypotheses, you would have, you would have and with bought collaborators. They are going to ask for remand as they are going to complete 100 days of wrongful abduction,” said the left-wing ex-president.

Terrones Castle He emphasized that “I did not commit any crime. In this context, the people know that today those who made a constitutional charge to keep me behind bars would also be part of this so-called criminal organization, because most of them have passed through the offices of the presidency.

Besides, criticized the current Congress, which he accused of not serving the country and “that when the President with his Council of Ministers goes to ask for a budget for the country, they first ask him for 500 million soles to distribute to their benches”.

“Where is the alleged criminal organization?” Today I feel a burden, I am deprived of my freedom, assuming a situation of conspiracy, because there is media pressure. More than sure, Mr. Otárola must be with a sheet in hand, with a draft with his resolution to achieve this, asking for my preventive detention. In this context, I must tell you, Mr. Magistrate, that I have a clear conscience, I did not steal a penny from the country”, declared the former president.

Pedro Castillo He also asked that they stop “taking advantage of virtuality” and that “People from the prosecution and Congress are having face-to-face hearings so they can tell me and show me what they’re accusing me of today”.

“Let them show me and tell them that what is happening today is because I did not sign the roadmap. I did not allow negotiations to take place because many benefits were distributed through social programs and because I began to collect the large historical accounts that large companies have with this country,” he said. he said from Barbadillo prison.

The Cajamarca professor did not hesitate to address his criticisms also to the media.

“Mr. Magistrate, the grounds and support that I can escape from a maximum security prison, that I have no family ties. I am not an orphan. I have a father, a mother, brothers, I have my wife, my children, my daughter. My father-in-law and many brothers who are part of this suffering city who come to visit me and they know that I have been incommunicado for almost 100 days in a space where I have no right to what others have and are by my sideCastillo referred to former President Alberto Fujimori, imprisoned in the same prison where he is.

At another point, the ex-president maintained that there is currently no danger of flight on his part. “My home is rooted in this place, where my defense, prosecution and Congress visit me. Where my family visits me. I don’t have professional roots due to the same situation I’m going through as a pre-trial prison”

“How am I going to obstruct or obstruct justice if here I don’t even have the right to a public telephone. I cannot communicate even with a missive or a letter. Above all, we must show whether we are on the side of the people or on the side of the enemies of the people, ”warned the former power.