Aníbal Torres admits that he met with Bruno Pacheco inside a vehicle | POLITICS

The first Minister Hannibal Torres acknowledged that he met once with the former Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic Bruno Pacheco to know specifically their situation, after the discovery of US$20,000 in the Government Palace in November of last year.

Torres appeared on Wednesday at the Supervisory Commission of the Congress, where he stated that this meeting was coordinated with a woman – whom he did not identify – who called him to arrange the meeting. For that reason, he added, he went to a street located in the district of San Borja.

“Once [me reuní con Pacheco]. There are no eyewitnesses because he and I met, alone, in the vehicle, on a street in San Borja that, if I’m not mistaken, is called El Buen Retiro. […] I don’t remember the exact day, but it was the last week of November, it must have been around 8 pm.”he explained.

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Until now, the head of the Ministerial Cabinet had not given a clear or detailed version on this matter.

“Yes, I have met in the street, I have passed with my car and I have said: how are you. I made it happen and then I ask him what happened, what is that of the US$20,000, because I was interested in knowing”Torres had stated in Cusco on April 30.

On Wednesday, he explained that on the day of the meeting he was with one of his sons, Marco Antonio Torres López, in a vehicle belonging to the latter’s company.

The prime minister specified that when they were on their way to pick up his son’s girlfriend, he told him to stop by for an address first. There he met Pacheco.

Torres added that his son got out of the vehicle and made the former presidential secretary enter it. “Pacheco and I have met in my vehicle, nobody else”I note.

The businesswoman Karelim López, now an effective collaborator of the prosecution, indicated that she took Pacheco in her vehicle to meet Torres in an apartment in San Borja.

But the prime minister rejected that statement and assured that the businesswoman has given up to seven versions about the meeting with Pacheco.

Torres also denied that he had offered to take the former presidential secretary out of the country to Panama.

Informal meeting

During his presentation, Prime Minister Torres contradicted himself when he tried to explain on several occasions that as head of Justice he wanted to know about the origin of the US$20,000 found in Pacheco.

However, when the members of the commission questioned him for attending an informal meeting, he assured that there “he did not carry out” any official activity as minister.

“A lady or young lady called me, I don’t remember, and I had the chance to talk to Mr. Bruno Pacheco because I was Minister of Justice and I wanted to know what happened, because having US$20 thousand, as it says in the press, was suspicious”he detailed.

At another point, Torres asserted that President Pedro Castillo did not know about the meeting he held with Pacheco.

“I had no knowledge [de la reunión con Pacheco]. I don’t know if he was aware later, we haven’t talked about that meeting.”he declared.

Also present at the session was former minister Juan Carrasco Millones, who denied knowing Pacheco or having wanted to appoint him as an advisor to the Ministry of Defense. Similarly, he denied knowing Karelim López.

Regarding his visit to the house on Passage Sarratea, in Breña, Carrasco said that he did not say before the Parliament’s Defense Commission that he had visited the house to discuss national defense issues with the head of state.

reprehensible

The president of the Control Commission, Héctor Ventura (Popular Force), commented that it is reprehensible that the prime minister met in a vehicle with Pacheco when he was minister of Justice.

“It draws the attention of the population, because how can an official meet informally in a street? When have you seen them meet in a car? That is reprehensible, it is not the behavior of a high official “questioned the Fujimori representative.

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