He anticipates what he will say to the Oversight Committee when he attends next week. The former president of Congress, Alejandro Soto, told Perú21 that he did not order Jorge Torres Saravia to be hired as the head of the Office of the Chief of Office, in September 2023.
This, despite the fact that JTS assumed that office two months after Soto assumed the presidency of the Legislature.
“I did not hire Mr. issue”, said Soto for this medium.
“I met Mr. As for Andrea Vidal, I never knew of her existence until I became aware of these reports, which I repeat, (this) happened six months after the end of my successful management. .
FOR INSPECTION
On the other hand, the trip to China of the head of the Legislature, Eduardo Salhuana, will not prevent him from being called to make his statement regarding this matter to the Oversight Commission investigating this matter.
According to Burgos, Saljuana and his predecessor in that position, Alejandro Soto, will be called to testify between the 15th and 16th of this month.
Alejandro Soto, for his part, has confirmed to Perú21 that he will testify, although he has announced that he will not accept any responsibility.
In our report today, we report that nearly two weeks after her demonstration, the head of Congressional Human Resources and Alliance for Progress (APP) activist, Haidy Figueroa, has been called to testify, for the second time. Wednesday 8, in Inspection.
Figueroa’s new call, the first was on December 26, is made to clarify the contradictions of how the main person involved in the case, the former head of the Parliamentary Legal Office Jorge Luis Torres Saravia, was hired.
SENIOR OFFICER
The Legislature’s top official, Giovanni Forno, when he gave his testimony to the aforementioned commission, on the same date that Figueroa gave, said that he did not remember who recommended him and submitted Torres Saravia’s biography for his employment in that position . in September 2023.
But, later he pointed out that the second time Torres was hired, in 2024, he did so at the request of the General Director of Administration, Carlos País, who is very close to the APP.
For this reason, País has also been called to testify for that day, the president of the Oversight Commission, Juan Burgos, told Perú21.
Andrea Vidal was brutally murdered by the killer with more than 40 bullets in her body. One of the hypotheses of the investigation is the existence of a suspected prostitution network within the Congress and the participation in it that the former head of the Office of Legal Counsel of the legislative entity Jorge Torres Saravia would have had.
It is not excluded the possibility that in this case he has a shield from APP because Torres Saravia is close to César Acuña’s party.
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