Alexander Leiva, attorney for Daniel Urrestiannounced that he will present a request to the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE) for the former mayoral candidate to be transferred from the Miguel Castro Castro prison (San Juan de Lurigancho) to the Virgen de las Mercedes prison (Chorrillos) to serve his 12-year prison sentence for the crime of the journalist Hugo Bustíos.
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On RPP TV, the lawyer indicated that will support your request in the condition of retired general of the Army that Urresti has and recalled that the Virgen de las Mercedes prison houses military and ex-military.
“Faced with INPE’s decision to send him to the Castro Castro prison, we are presenting a letter to INPE first thing tomorrow (Friday). asking that, due to his status as a retired Army general, he be transferred to the Virgen de las Mercedes prison, in Chorrilloswhich is a prison that has been made for military and ex-militaryLeiva said.
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In addition, he stressed that The fact that Urresti is interned in the Miguel Castro Castro prison generates “some fear” and that for that reason his transfer is requested, so that “he is calm.”
INPE response
The director of INPE, Javier Llaque Moya, indicated that Urresti has been classified in an ordinary penitentiary regime in the Miguel Castro Castro prison and that the response to the request for his transfer to another prison would be delivered between 15 and 30 days.
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“The convict to whom he refers is already in Castro Castro at this moment, he has already been transferred to the prison and has already entered. If the lawyer is going to be requested because he questions the decision of the INPE, it will be evaluated by the same criminal and the competent bodiess to determine whether or not the corresponding transfer is appropriate, ”he said.