The Peruvian Parliament will summon one of its former officials on Thursday, suspected of having set up a prostitution network within the Legislative Assembly, several media outlets in the country said on Tuesday.
The main suspect is the former head of the Legal and Constitutional Office of Parliament, lawyer Jorge Torres, close to the right-wing Alliance for Progress (APP) party, according to information released in recent days by the state agency ANDINA and local media.
Mr. Torres is to appear before the Parliamentary Oversight Committee to respond to the allegations broadcast last week by the television program Beto Saberin which he is identified as the supposed organizer of a network of employees who had sexual relations with parliamentarians.
Parliament's investigation comes on top of a preliminary investigation carried out by the public prosecutor's office for “the alleged crime of sexual exploitation against as yet unidentified women.”
Mr. Torres rejected the accusations in the press, calling on the public prosecutor's office and the parliamentary control committee to investigate.
He was dismissed from his position in Parliament on December 13, three days after the shooting which fatally injured his former advisor, Andrea Vidal, suspected of having recruited prostitutes.
“Never in my life as a parliamentarian would I have imagined experiencing a situation of this nature,” lamented the President of Parliament, Eduardo Salhuana, of the APP party.
