{"id":2483873,"date":"2025-03-27T07:29:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T07:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2483873\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T07:29:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T07:29:46","slug":"peru-ex-official-denies-running-congress-prostitution-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2483873\/","title":{"rendered":"Peru ex-official denies running Congress prostitution ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AFP046872_00.pre.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t      A former Peruvian congressional official on Thursday denied having set up a prostitution ring in the legislature providing sexual favors to lawmakers in return for votes.<br \/>  Jorge Torres, the former head of the congressional legal and constitutional office, rejected the accusations during questioning by a parliamentary oversight committee investigating the scandal in parallel with the public prosecutor&#8217;s office.<br \/>  Regarding the issue of a possible prostitution ring in Congress, I totally reject it, Torres said.<br \/>  He said he had no connection to sexual workers providing services to members of congress, much less that these services have been used to generate votes in favor of a bill.<br \/>  The scandal erupted after the murder of lawyer Andrea Vidal, 28, who was an advisor to Torres until she was fired in September.<br \/>  Vidal died in a hospital on December 17 after she was shot along with the driver of the taxi in which she was traveling.<br \/>  The television program Beto a Saber implicated Torres in the murder of Vidal, who allegedly recruited the prostitutes to provide sexual favors in Congress.<br \/>  Torres, who was removed from his position in Congress on December 13, rejected the suggestion that he ordered the hit on Vidal as absurd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Peruvian congressional official on Thursday denied having set up a prostitution ring in the legislatu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2483874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[785162],"tags":[98706,677414,528524,32077,939,1670,98751,73191,11802,200,125020,78392,84024,6798,17757,812,4817,3687,4313,31168,1712,345531,6330,784979,2722,11034,784980,1668,3843,13633,11786,3577,16899,21135,302851,482,14115,577,1669],"class_list":{"0":"post-2483873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-peru","8":"tag-jiji","9":"tag-peru","10":"tag-topics","11":"tag-topix","12":"tag-939","13":"tag-1670","14":"tag-98751","15":"tag-73191","16":"tag-11802","17":"tag-200","18":"tag-125020","19":"tag-78392","20":"tag-84024","21":"tag-6798","22":"tag-17757","23":"tag-812","24":"tag-4817","25":"tag-3687","26":"tag-4313","27":"tag-31168","28":"tag-1712","29":"tag-345531","30":"tag-6330","31":"tag-784979","32":"tag-2722","33":"tag-11034","34":"tag-784980","35":"tag-1668","36":"tag-3843","37":"tag-13633","38":"tag-11786","39":"tag-3577","40":"tag-16899","41":"tag-21135","42":"tag-302851","43":"tag-482","44":"tag-14115","45":"tag-577","46":"tag-1669"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/wakoka.com\/@news\/114233228224703108","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2483873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2483874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2483873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2483873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2483873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}