Despite being protected by presidential immunity, Peru's Head of State and Government Martin Vizcarra sent a letter to the Prosecutor's Office in
affirming he is available for the investigation into the accusations against his administration as Governor of the southern region (2011-2014).
In the document —submitted to Prosecutor Walker Fredy Rios Calisaya, who belongs to the Second Specialized Anticorruption Office— Mr. Vizcarra indicated he is willing to appear before the magistrates "as many times as necessary" in order to —once again— demonstrate his
transparent participation in the public service.
It must be noted the letter was submitted by the President and his lawyer Alvaro Rubianes on May 24.
In the document, the top official notes the Moquegua Prosecutor's Office "knows better than anyone about the nearly 50 open complaints" against him during his tenure as Regional Governor and that he has attended the audiences he had been asked to.
In this sense, the statesman recalled he had attended those audiences in order to "clarify the doubts one by one," demonstrate his "absolute adherence to the law during his tenure" and that for this reason the "corresponding investigations were shelved."
However, the President said that —despite the above— he wants to be available for the Prosecutor's Office to carry out the investigations its members may consider pertinent.
"I am willing to appear before your office as many times as necessary, in order to prove once again my proper participation in the public service," he concluded.
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