Peruvian President Pedro Castillo, the subject of six investigations for alleged corruption, ordered the Ministry of the Interior to initiate a program to expel “all foreigners” who commit crimes in the country. “I ordered the start of the ‘Return to your country’ program through the Peruvian Ministry of the Interior so that all foreigners who commit crimes in Peru are expelled,” said the Peruvian president.
“I appreciate the availability of the Embassy of Venezuela and the other embassies with which we have been coordinating,” Castillo added this Friday, on the social network Twitter. The head of state said that he intends to give “a frontal fight against crime,” adding that “Peruvian families, who deserve a quiet life, in peace and freedom, cannot be allowed to continue to be affected.”
The announcement comes several days after Peruvian Prime Minister Aníbal Torres announced his intention to present a bill to expand the crimes that would imply the expulsion of foreign citizens from Peruvian territory.
The proposal would include crimes such as contempt for the restrictions imposed to contain the covid-19 pandemic -including mandatory vaccination-, lack of identification documents, driving without a license, carrying firearms or explosives without authorization or possession of drugs and narcotics.
The Public Ministry of Peru opened this Thursday a sixth preliminary investigation against Castillo, this time for alleged acts of corruption in the award of works in his native region of Cajamarca. As part of this investigation, Yenifer Paredes, the younger sister of the first lady who was raised as a daughter by the presidential couple, was arrested on suspicion of influence peddling in a sanitation project in the district of Chota, Cajamarca.
On Tuesday, Castillo said in a message to the nation that he was the victim of a “conspiracy between Congress, the Attorney General’s Office and a sector of the press to destabilize the democratic order” and “illegally seize power.”
Source: Observadora
