According to the State Electronic Procurement and Contracting System (Seace), the president’s sister-in-law peter castleYenifer Paredes NavarroHe participated as a member of several bidding committees of the District Municipality of Anguía, the land of his adoptive parents, the head of state and the first lady, his older sister Lilia Paredes Navarro.
The SEACE database indicates that the intervention of the sister in law Yenifer Paredes in the processes of awarding public works occurred during the management of the Mayor of Anguía, Nenil Medina, a friend of President Pedro Castillo.
Everything has its reason
According to sources related to the District Municipality of AnguíaYenifer Paredes was a trusted official of the mayor medina and, through him, was linked with businessman Hugo Espino Lucana. As reported by La República, Nenil Medina and Hugo Espino visited the Ministry of Housing, Construction and Sanitation (MVCS), representing the municipality of Anguía, in 2019 and 2020. On February 22 of this last year, Yenifer Paredes also joined the MVCS on behalf of Anguía.
Hugo Espino is the owner of the company JJM Espino Engineering & Construction, and he was the one who, together with Yenifer Paredeson behalf of said construction company, visited the community of La Succha, offering drinking water works with vests bearing the company logo, on September 16, 2021.
On August 22, 2019, the municipality of Anguía appointed Yenifer Paredes as substitute for the number one member of the bidding committee, for the award of a drinking water and sanitation work for Anguía for 5 million 927 thousand 754 soles.
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And on October 9, 2020, he was appointed as deputy chairman of the award committee for drinking water works for 5 communities in Anguía, for 3 million 491 thousand 612 soles.
Take off you, what do I wear?
Coincidentally, one of the five communities for which the drinking water project was intended was the community of La Succha. It is the same as the year after the bidding, Yenifer Paredes and Hugo Espino Lucana visited as members of the company JJM Espino Engineering & Construction.
Shortly after this visit by friends to the community of the succhaon November 25, 2021, the Municipality of Anguía awarded a drinking water project to the company Destcon Engineers and Architects, whose owner, Anggi Espino Lucanais the sister of Hugo Espino Lucana, a friend of both the sister-in-law Yenifer Paredes and the mayor of Anguía.
Among the officials who participated in the bidding in favor of Hugo Espino’s sister, appear, according to Seace records, Dany Chávez Saldaña, Orlando Coronel Vásquez and Osmar Montenegro Chávez.
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Orlando Coronel was part of a bidding committee that also included Yenifer Paredes, in 2020. Likewise, Dany Chávez, in 2019 and 2020, and Osmar Montenegro in 2020.
This means that co-workers in the Municipality of Anguía of the presidential sister-in-law Yenifer Paredes were part of the tender that the company of the sister of his friend Hugo Espino won.
According to sources related to tax investigation, the first lady Lilia Paredes has said during the interrogation that Hugo Espino would be a friend of the family. But she specified that He was unaware of the friendship or commercial relationship between his sister Yenifer Paredes and businessman Hugo Espino Lucana.
As a public official of the municipality of Anguía, Yenifer Paredes knows perfectly well what the crime of influence peddling means.
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in tenders
SEACE reports that record that Yenifer Paredes participated in tenders.