The presidential palace in Peru searched for the president’s brother-in-law, accused of corruption

Lima – AFP
On Tuesday evening, the Peruvian public prosecutor and police searched the presidential palace in order to arrest the wife of President Pedro Castillo’s brother, who is suspected of participating in a corruption and money laundering network.
A statement from the Court of Accounts stated that the operation to arrest Yennefer Paredes, which did not succeed, was launched at the request of the Public Prosecution Office, which requested “an inspection of the residential part of the presidential palace in Lima.”
This process is unprecedented in the history of Peru, as it is the first time that the judiciary has entered the headquarters of the executive authority in search of a person.
The judicial process took place simultaneously in several places in Lima, with the arrest of people, Jose Ninel Medina, the mayor of a city from the region from which Castillo comes, and the two brothers, businessmen Ugo and Inge Espino, on suspicion of belonging to the same network.
The court allowed the provisional detention of these people for ten days.Lenvir Paredes had previously been summoned to testify before the Public Prosecution Office and appear before a committee in the Peruvian Congress in mid-July.
The Public Prosecutor’s services have opened five investigations against President Castillo himself, in the context of possible corruption cases, which is also unprecedented for a current Peruvian president.