Gaspar Vega
As we said earlier, the DPM has issued a statement on respect of the allegations made against him. He says that he is hurt and angered by the allegations that seek to wreck him and his family. Here is a small clip of the statement which will run in its entirety later in the newscast.
Gaspar Vega, Deputy Prime Minister
“It hurts and angers me that a recording from the person the police have stated to be the principal murderer and who ran away to avoid justice should be used now to endanger me and my family. I cannot understand how anyone could see it to place any reliance on what this Castillo supposedly says. His co-accused have confessed and detailed exactly how Castillo masterminded this and another murder. This has been confirmed by the evidence that police gathered. The fact is that as the murder mastermind, Castillo can have no credibility. This is also underlined by the huge holes and obvious lies in the stories that he tells on the recording. At the end of it all, therefore I have to feel that politics is involved here.”
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