A new character appears in the scene involving the former henchman of peter castle, Bruno Pacheco. It would be the former mayor of Villa María del Triunfo (VMT) Silvia Barrera Vasquez. The former municipal authority would fulfill the role of intermediary between the fugitive former official and his legal defense team.
According to him Cesar Hildebrant’s weeklythe Public ministry would have the information that Barrera Vásquez would be a close friend of Pacheco whom she met during the last general elections.
Likewise, the house of Silvia Barrera, located in the residential area of La Planicie, La Molina, would have been the place where the former secretary of Palacio would have communicated with his lawyers via video call when he was already a fugitive from justice. However, the former burgomaster denied that for Hildebrandt in his thirteen.
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“I don’t know why they involve me. They spill information without evidence. They already hurt me a lot. Enough”, he replied through a messaging application to the aforementioned medium.
Reply from William Castillo
The weekly contacted the former legal defense of Bruno Pacheco until April 18, William Paco Castillo who affirmed for the media that he had met at the La Molina district facilities late at night.
Supposedly, Castillo would have visited Barrera Vásquez’s residence regarding 10 times to communicate with his then patron. He pointed out that he arrived at the address at an average of 11 or 11:30 p.m. That was the moment in which the former mayor made the connection between the lawyer and the former confidant of peter castle.
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The lawyer also stated that Bruno Pacheco’s sister and brother-in-law had been at the La Molina residence. It would be regarding Mercedes Violeta Pacheco Castillo y Cesar Augusto Palma Valle.
In addition, he added that once his employment relationship with Pacheco ended, he continued to communicate with him regarding six more times. However, she stressed that they did not meet in person.
Mercedes Pacheco and Cesar Palma
When they found the 20 thousand dollars in the bathroom of Bruno Pacheco’s office, he maintained that this amount in cash was the product of his salary as secretary of the Government Palace. However, he later changed his speech to one involving his relatives. In his new version, it was his sister and his brother-in-law who would have given him the money for an alleged “loan”.
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In the communication that the magazine had with César Palma, the latter denied William Castillo’s version. He assured that neither he nor his wife know the whereregardings of Bruno Pacheco and that they have not gone to Silvia Barrera’s house. Palma added that he will send a notarized letter to the former secretary’s legal adviser.
“It is totally false. We do not know the house of Mrs. Silvia (Barrera) and, for the time my brother-in-law lives, we have no communication with him. You don’t know how the family is, the brothers. They are in a state of stress because my brother-in-law suffers from certain illnesses and they are desperate”, Palma stated for the weekly Hildebrandt en sus trece.
The outlet tried to contact Pacheco’s sister, Mercedes, but received no response.
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Silvia Barrera, Bruno Pacheco and Sunat
The former municipal authority of VMT is investigated by the Specialized Prosecutor for Corruption Crimes of Officials. The superintendent of National Superintendence of Customs and Tax Administration (Sunat), Luis Enrique Vera, was subjected to pressure by the right hand President Pedro Castillo to favor companies and their relatives. It is known that there were three requests that Pacheco made to the head of Sunat.
Silvia Barrera would have coordinated the pressures of Pacheco Castillo in the Sunat to benefit the company Deltron in an existing debt with the institution. In addition, he visited the offices of the Secretary and Undersecretary of the Palace on nine occasions, and stayed inside the headquarters for up to nine hours, around midnight.
The weekly reports that Giuliana Quiñonez Sáenz, Bruno Pacheco’s current lawyer, knows Silvia Barrera. However, she denied that she went to the La Planicie residence to communicate with her client.
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In November 2021, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor requested the Directorate once morest Corruption (Dircocor) Yet the Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior (DIGIMIN) that they carry out video surveillance activities so that they can find the whereregardings of Bruno Pacheco, although these measures were not successful.
Reappearance of Bruno Pacheco
On May 3, Pedro Castillo’s former trusted man appeared virtually at the hearing that evaluated his appeal of 36 months of preventive detention once morest him for the alleged crimes of criminal organization, influence peddling and aggravated collusion. Before the Second Criminal Chamber of Appeals of the Superior Court of Justice of Lima, Bruno Pacheco Castillo pleaded not guilty to the facts.
“As secretary of the presidency, What do I have to do with the Ministry of Transport and Communications? You can ask me regarding the visits of Karelim López. Because of those visits I am in this situation, ”he indicated in the video call through which he communicated.
