Col. Harvey Colchado’s defense attorney Luis Naldos explained that according to that unit’s secret report that reached the opposition media, an unknown informant of the prosecutor’s special assistance group claimed that the alleged conspirators were being funded by the government.
“That needs to be confirmed, but that there is some connection with real people and that they have positions in government, that’s real,” Colchado’s legal representative said without evidence.
According to the secret document, the authenticity of which Colchado neither confirms nor denies, the whistleblower “Juana” is said to have reported that a Spaniard named “Jorge” or “Jorge Fernández”, a businessman allegedly linked to elements of the government, started a group who plans the attacks.
He adds that the group intends to kill the nation’s prosecutor Patricia Benavides, who denounced President Pedro Castillo before Parliament for alleged corruption, and Colonels Colchado and Walter Pajuelo, as well as prosecutor Marita Barreto.
The version reached the media last week but was met with skepticism due to the dubious source and the fact that “Jorge” and the assassins he allegedly recruited for the attacks had not been cracked down on.
However, the “secret report” by the prosecutor’s special team, which reached the media yesterday, was sharply received by opposition newspapers, TV and radio stations in connection with an intensification of a campaign against Castillo.
The version of alleged attack preparations received wide coverage in the press and among opposition parliamentarians on the eve of an opposition march that will tomorrow demand Castillo’s sacking, a goal simultaneously sought by the majority.
The opposition refuses a priori an agreement that Castillo insists on seeking, awaiting the possible good offices of a mission from the Organization of American States (OAS), which will arrive on November 20 at the request of the President to assess the Peruvian political crisis.
Progressive parliamentarians and government officials, as well as the head of advisers to the National Intelligence Directorate, Gustavo Bobbio, agreed that the case of the alleged attacks should be investigated.
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