00:00In Peru, an audio recording involving the Justice Minister and the Prime Minister
00:04has created tensions within the executive branch,
00:07and Congress is already gathering signatures to remove them from our office.
00:11Our colleague Ramir Angulo gives us the details.
00:17The appearance of a new audio recording in which Justice Minister Juan José Santivanez
00:22requests the transfer to another prison of a dangerous criminal,
00:26whom he was legally advising, has once again called into question his suitability for the position.
00:34It is incredible, but the country's illegal economy is based on extortion, kidnapping,
00:39drug trafficking, illegal mining, logging, and human trafficking has legal arms
00:43through a group of lawyers who are now co-governing with the President.
00:47In other words, they have penetrated the institutions, not only the bad police,
00:51the bad officers, the bad soldiers, and the high command of the armed forces,
00:55but they are also penetrating the executive branch.
00:59As the audio says, the families are now going and knocking on the door of the ministry
01:03to claim what they have paid for.
01:08In the audio recording, he asks the then Minister of Justice and now Prime Minister Eduardo Arena,
01:17to favour the convicted former police officer Marcelo Solu Roses,
01:22accused of being the armed wing of the Los Polpos gang,
01:25a fact that has lead to a motion of censure to remove both from office.
01:28If it is indeed his voice, and if he has made those announcements,
01:37if those conversations are real, he could have committed the crime of influence peddling,
01:41for which it is not required that the influence invoked be real,
01:46it is sufficient that the invocation of influence be made for the crime to have been committed.
01:51Therefore, all that remains to be done here is to conduct an expert analysis of the audio recordings
01:56and confirm that it is the voice of Senevenes,
01:58in which case he will have committed the crime without a doubt.
02:01Senevenes was criticized as Minister of the Interior for not combating insecurity,
02:12but he also attacks the press, and is under investigation by the Prosecutor's Office
02:17for blocking investigations against Dana Baluartek and her brother Nicanor.
02:21They are also negotiating the possibility of an amnesty I believe,
02:29and this is a hypothesis for the President of the Republic,
02:32with regard to the events of the 2020 and 23rd.
02:37It seems to me that they are running out of time.
02:40They have eight months to achieve this amnesty in this Congress,
02:43before the new Congress is installed.
02:45And thus the President will be able to go home peacefully,
02:48knowing that she will not be prosecuted for the deaths that occurred during the protests.
02:56For former Prime Minister Mirtha Vásquez,
03:01Prime Minister Arana's attitude in saying that he does not recognize himself
03:05in the audio recording demonstrates his political audacity.
03:08The reaction of the person involved, Mr. Arana, President of the Council of Ministers,
03:16seems to me to be extremely cynical and somewhat expressive of political audacity,
03:20because he does not deny that it is his voice.
03:22He does not deny the content of the conversations.
03:32He simply says that it is up to the judiciary to determine that a Prime Minister is the highest authority.
03:38This is really scandalous and serious,
03:40but I believe he has this reaction because he feels impunity and protection.
03:43For those interviewed, the more than 30 signatures on the censorship against Santi Vanez
03:58demonstrate the delicacy of the case, and although they feel protected,
04:02it is difficult to predict whether any of them will be removed next week after the debate.
04:06From Lima, to Telesur, Ramiro Angulo Maquiavelo.
