The Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office investigates President José Jerí for alleged influence peddling

Lima.- The Public Ministry of Peru opened another preliminary investigation against the interim president, the right-winger José Jerí, for the alleged commission of the crime of aggravated influence peddling due to the irregular hiring of young women who got jobs in the Executive after meeting with the president at the Government Palace.

This was revealed by local media such as the television channel Latina and the radio station RPP, which had access to the provision signed by the interim Attorney General, Tomás Gálvez Aladino, which details that the investigation has a period of 90 days.

Furthermore, they added that within the framework of this investigation, Jerí will have to testify on March 2 at 2:30 PM local time (7:30 PM GMT) before Gálvez Aladino, who will move to Government Palace.

Several local media revealed in early February that at least five professionals between 29 and 38 years old obtained service orders and contracts in various public entities, such as the social health insurance (Essalud), the Ministries of Environment and Education, and the presidential office itself, a few days after visiting Jerí.

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Little by little, more details have emerged about contracts and visits from women that Jerí has received at the Government Palace, some on holidays, until night, and for example, one of them spent the whole night of Halloween there and left the presidential headquarters the next morning.

The Government of Peru has denied that young women have been hired irregularly at the Government Palace and stated through a statement that “it is not possible to objectify and violate the rights to good name, dignity and work simply because they are women and young”.

“We respect freedom of expression, however, we reject the misuse of information, giving it a malicious meaning, where young and professional women who, because they have started working at the Government Palace, are labeled in a degrading way, thus attacking the dignity of each one,” stated the Presidency of Peru after the broadcast of the journalistic investigations.

Furthermore, the Executive indicated that it is intended to report, “in a biased manner”, on the entry and exit times of the young women, insinuating that they have spent hours with Jerí, something that, according to the presidential office, “does not conform to the truth, since there is a very long waiting time to be attended, due to the multiple activities that take place in the Government Palace”.