The Epoch Times Peru’s Attorney General Zoraida Avalos announced on Jan. 4 the opening of a preliminary investigation into President Pedro Castillo for alleged collusion and influence-peddling with companies over government public works contracts.
The latest investigation by the attorney general’s office focuses on meetings held by the president with corporate lobbyists in November 2021.
Castillo held meetings in the Government Palace, and also in the private home of businesswoman Karelim Lopez, over the construction of a bridge in one of the nation’s central Amazonian departments. Lopez’s employer, Puente Tarata III, won the project by underbidding the competition by only 27 cents…
