The director of Lima’s Barbadillo prison was removed from his post late Monday following revelations that the relatives of guards stationed with the imprisoned former president secured positions inside the nation’s legislature.
Mr. Lucero Rodríguez faced swift administrative action after the program captured him driving a visitor linked to the former president's circle away from the prison grounds.
To lead the Barbadillo facility following the ousting, authorities instructed Colonel Lezcano to place a retired military officer who is an expert in security and intelligence in the role during the week.
The broadcast detailed multiple appointments within legislative offices held by relatives of prison personnel distributed across congressmen’s offices, the parliamentary bench, and the Committee on Justice and Human Rights. Yulissa Ivonne Lucero Chujutalli, daughter of the ousted director, secured a position as a technical assistant in the congressional office of Azucena Isla Rojas with a monthly salary of S/8,300.
His father, Juan Ramón Hurtado Barrenechea, is an agent assigned to the custody of the former head of state inside the Barbadillo facility.
That specific legislative panel is led by lawmaker Catherine Palomino Casavilca and holds jurisdiction over upcoming legislative proposals concerning amnesties related to the former president. Héctor Sandoval Moreno dismissed any interference by the former mandatary and directed questions regarding his qualifications to the congressional human resources office, while other officials emphasized that congressional hiring profiles are filtered by the legislature itself.
Meanwhile, political figures have demanded investigations into whether security protocols were compromised to benefit the inmate serving an 11-year sentence for his role in the December 2022 constitutional crisis, while the parliamentary bench’s spokesperson Ernesto Zunini moved to immediately suspend a worker of the bench and reaffirmed a commitment to ethical management.
