Lima, Mar 9 (EFE).- The Peruvian supreme judge Juan Carlos Checkley imposed this Thursday 36 months of preventive detention for former president Pedro Castillo, who is already in prison for his failed self-coup, while he is investigated for a case of corruption.
During a virtual hearing, Checkley said that the measure was “ideal” because it is not a common trial, but one that is highly dangerous” and explained that the former president, detained for 18 months in preventive detention for the self-coup, has incurred in obstruction of Justice through the intimidation of witnesses, which has even reached the Attorney General herself, Patricia Benavides.