MADRID, 17 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Peruvian Attorney General’s Office has denounced former President Martín Vizcarra for a crime of transnational bribery in the framework of the case known as ‘Vacunagate’, for which he is being investigated for his alleged irregular vaccination against the coronavirus during the peak of the pandemic in the andean country.
The attorney general, Daniel Soria, has asked the Prosecutor’s Office to include this crime of bribery within the investigation against Vizcarra, according to the newspaper ‘El Comercio’. The former president has already been disqualified twice by Congress since 2021, once for this case and another for alleged irregularities when he was Minister of Transportation between 2016 and 2017.
The ‘Vacunagate’ revealed that 470 people were vaccinated irregularly in October 2020, including Vizcarra, his wife, and other members of his family, as well as officials, authorities from the Ministries of Health and Foreign Affairs, with the Chinese vaccine. Sinopharm, during the phase 3 trial period of the drug.
Due to these facts, Congress approved disqualifying Vizcarra, who had been elected in the 2021 elections, from holding public office for ten years. Already in May 2022, he was suspended again for another five years, but this time for alleged irregularities when he was Minister of Transportation under the mandate of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.
