Castillo’s legal team will file an appeal against the search warrant for the presidential palace.

The legal team of Peru’s president, Pedro Castillo, will file an appeal against the court order that a special team of the Peruvian Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office took Friday to seize the recordings of three of the presidential palace’s security cameras.

Specifically, the Peruvian president’s lawyer, Benji Espinoza, has announced that in the coming days he will appeal the court decision that allowed the Police to raid the Government Palace and take the videos that the security cameras recorded of the entrances to the presidential residence on August 8, 9 and 10, as reported by RPP radio station.

“All the facilities were given, there was no hint, no act of behavior of anyone hindering, hindering or putting any hindrance to the diligence,” Espinoza said in statements to the media, assuring that there was no motivation to carry out any type of raid.

Likewise, he specified that the resolution “is not clear”, since “the only judges competent to authorize this measure are those of the second instance, that is to say, of the Supreme Court”, as reported by Andina news agency.

On Friday, a team of special prosecutors entered the Government Palace to get hold of the recordings of the security cameras due to the alleged loss of information from them when the Prosecutor’s Office raided the presidential residence to arrest the sister-in-law of President Pedro Castillo, Yénifer Paredes, last August 9.

Specifically, the security cameras that the Public Prosecutor’s Office team wants to confiscate are those corresponding to the accesses of the presidential palace, since the day they went to the arrest of Paredes they did not find her there.

“Camera 26 lost information from 18.03 hours until 18.05 hours. Camera 03, from 9:22 p.m. to 10:27 p.m., and camera 55 lost ‘total information’ and was only reestablished from 3:19 p.m. on August 15,” reads the resolution, referring to August 9.

The Judicial Power of Peru ordered the arrest of the sister-in-law of President Pedro Castillo, Yenifer Paredes, investigated after a video was disseminated in which she is allegedly seen offering a sanitation work to the inhabitants of the community of Succha.

However, at the time of the raid, the team of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office did not find Paredes, although days later she voluntarily turned herself in.

Currently, the sister of the Peruvian first lady is serving 30 months of preventive detention, after the judge in charge declared the alleged commission of the crime of criminal organization founded.