Peru arrests six generals amid graft investigation of ex-President Castillo4 hours in the past

The anti-corruption unit of Peru’s legal professional basic’s workplace on Monday detained six generals amid an investigation into allegations the federal government of ousted former President Pedro Castillo illegally promoted police and army officers.

Police additionally seized “paperwork and gadgets” throughout a raid of the house of Castillo’s former Protection Minister Walter Ayala, the anti-corruption unit mentioned.

Castillo, who was arrested earlier this month after lawmakers voted him out of workplace for making an attempt to illegally dissolve Congress, is being investigated for affect peddling. He faces six separate expenses of corruption, all of which he has denied.

“Via these interventions, six of these investigated had been arrested. The proceedings … embody 26 raids nationwide,” the legal professional basic’s workplace mentioned on Twitter.

The leftist former president is serving 48 months of pretrial detention whereas he’s being investigated on expenses of “insurrection.”

The legal professional basic’s workplace mentioned on Twitter the detained generals are being investigated for “allegedly having paid to rise in rank in 2021 with the authorization of former President Pedro Castillo.”

Former Protection Minister Ayala criticized the search of his house and the arrest of the generals.

“This has been pointless, as a result of they haven’t discovered something,” Ayala informed reporters. “This investigation is over a 12 months outdated … it is a present.”