The president’s sister-in-law peter castle, Yenifer Paredes Navarro, was in the presidential residence when prosecutor Hans Aguirre Huatuco and the coordinator of the Special Team, Colonel Harvey Colchado Huamaní, They arrived at the scene at five o’clock on Tuesday afternoon to comply with the arrest warrant, according to sources from La República who were part of the proceedings.
An hour and 45 minutes later, the authorities were only allowed access, so the sources presume that the time could have been used by Paredes to leave the Government Palace.
24 hours after the failed attempt to arrest her, at around five o’clock on Wednesday afternoon, Yenifer Paredes Finally was presented at the main headquarters of the Public Ministry, on Abancay Avenue, to make themselves available to Prosecutors against the Corruption of Powerwho investigates her for her alleged participation of a criminal organization that forged tenders for million-dollar public works in the district of Anguía, the district from which the presidential family comes.
He was wearing blue pants, a lilac sweater, a black jacket and a checkered wool scarf. She was not alone. She was accompanied by her lawyer José Dionisio and Lourdes Huanca, president of the National Federation of Peasant, Artisan, Indigenous and Native Women of Peru.
During a telephone connection with Radio Programas, Dionisio specified that his client will not benefit from effective collaboration because he does not admit having committed the crimes he is accused of. the Prosecutors against the Corruption of Power.
Prosecutor Jorge García Juárez contacted Yenifer Paredes and He took her to the facilities of the High Complexity Crimes Investigation Division (Diviac) of the National Police, in the Seventh Police Region of Lima, on España Avenue.
Sources from the Special Team informed this newspaper that they knew that Yenifer Paredes was in the Government Palace and for that reason they went to the presidential residence to arrest Castillo’s sister-in-law.
According to the same sources, the Special Team found that On Friday, August 5, at 11:20 in the morning, Yenifer Paredes arrived in Lima on a flight from Cajamarca. Upon arrival at the Jorge Chávez airport, she was picked up by an official vehicle assigned to the first lady Lilia Paredes Navarro.
According to the surveillance records, the Special Team established that Yenifer Paredes went to the Government Palace and did not leave the place until the authorities arrived to look for her, but they denied it. As a result, A number of incidents were recorded.
The prosecutor in the case, Hans Aguirre Huatuco, drew up a document in which he stated that the president’s lawyer, Pedro Castillo, Eduardo Pacha Palacios, He threatened him during the raid to capture Yenifer Paredes Navarro, the president’s sister-in-law.
“In this act, the representative of the Public ministryat 6:35 p.m., records that the defense attorney Eduardo Pachas Palacios in an arrogant manner addresses the provincial prosecutor expressing the following: ‘This is not going to stay like this, this is going to have consequences’”.
Prosecutor Hans Aguirre detailed in the minutes that he arrived with agents of the Special Team at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, August 9, at the presidential residence in order to comply with the judicial order, but that they were prevented from entering by the head of the Military House, General EP José Mariscal Quiroz.
Prosecutor Aguirre indicated that at 5:20 p.m. General José Mariscal was present to coordinate the admission, but he warned the prosecutor that he had to await the arrival of President Castillo, who was on his way.
Only at 6:45 in the afternoon, the authorities headed by prosecutor Aguirre managed to enter all the rooms of the presidential residence, but they did not find Yenifer Paredes.
Under surveillance
Yenifer Paredes, the mayor of Anguía, Nenil Medina Paredes, and the brothers Hugo and Anggi Espino Lucana, had been under surveillance for two weeks. For example, on Saturday, August 6, the agents of the Special Team detected that Mayor Medina returned from a trip to Puerto Inca (Huánuco) and stayed at a relative’s house, in the district of Ventanilla.
During video surveillance monitoring, medina He contacted businessman Daniel Príncipe Collazos, who took him everywhere in his black Picanto car. Later He decided to stay in a hotel on block 2 of Avenida España, one block from the headquarters of the Diviac and the Dirincri.
Precisely, Nenil Medina was captured last Tuesday when he was traveling aboard the car owned by Jorge Príncipe Collazos at the corner of Garcilaso de la Vega and España avenues. The Special Team managed to seize a laptop and three cell phones in Medina’s hotel room. Remember that the mayor had reported the alleged theft of two telephones.
key character. The mayor of the Anguía district, Nenil Medina Guerrero, was taken to the Diviac facilities. Photo: Marco Cotrina/The Republic
On Wednesday morning, when Yenifer Paredes still had not turned herself in, the Task Force searched for the president’s sister-in-law in Chugur, a village in the district of Anguia, without results. The agents also raided the house of Mayor Nenil Medina in the same town, where documents related to the investigation were taken.
Search. In the community of Chugur, Anguía, the police searched for Yenifer Paredes Navarro. Photo: diffusion
Sources related to the tax investigation indicated that It is very likely that the arrest of brothers David and Walter Paredes Navarro, brothers of Yenifer Paredes, will be ordered.
According to the mandate of Judge Raúl Justiniano Romero, David and Walter Paredes provided 90 thousand soles to the brothers Hugo and Anggi Espino Lucana, who managed two construction companies that later obtained millionaire contracts through allegedly forged tenders.
Family. It is very likely that David and Walter Navarro will also be arrested. Photo: diffusion
The same judicial document identifies the former Minister of Housing and Construction -and current head of the Ministry of Transport and Communications-, Geiner Alvarado Lopez, as part of the organization that from the Government Palace entered public works contracts to companies related to the presidential family and their friends. Through his Twitter account, Alvarado spoke: “I categorically reject being part of a criminal organization and I request the Public Ministry to clarify the case promptly, in order not to affect the dignity of the people.”
Geiner Alvarado signed emergency decree 102-2021 with President Castillo, authorizing the transfer of 34.3 million soles. Of that amount, 9.6 million were assigned to finance five works in the district of Anguía. With those resources, the now arrested mayor Nenil Medina awarded a contract of more than 3 million to a facade construction company of the brothers Hugo and Anggi Espino, friends of the mayor and Yenifer Paredes.
But it is not the only connection with Geiner Alvarado.
His former head of the advisory cabinet, Salatiel Marrufo Alcántara, resigned from his position a week ago. after the media reported that the mayor of Anguía, Nenil Medina, had hired him for consulting services.
Also with public funds approved by the head of state, Mayor Nenil Medina authorized the direct hiring of a consortium made up of the companies Ibervial and Grupo Constructor Parasol for the construction of a road for 19.5 million soles.
Coincidentally, During the management of Salatiel Marrufo as director of Sedapal, this entity gave the approval of a work of 102.2 million soles to the company Grupo Constructor Parasol. That is, to the same company that had won a contract for 19.5 million in the district of Anguía, whose mayor, Nenil Medina, Salatiel Marrufo advised. Too much coincidence.
The Republic interviewed Salatiel Marrufo to pick up your version.
“I have known the mayor of Anguía, Nenil Medina, for a long time. I have been an advisor to the municipality. Before assuming the position of the Ministry of Housing, my law firm had a number of municipalities that presented external legal advice, among which was Anguía. I’ve known him more or less since 2019″, Marrufo said.
Regarding Mayor Nenil Medina’s payments, he explained: “What happens is that the municipality owed me six months of payment. My last day of work at the municipality was July 2021. On August 2, he assumed the leadership of advisors to the ministry. Normally the municipalities are late in paying. What appears in Transparency are payments for previous services”, Salatiel Marrufo explained.
In addition to resigning as head of the advisory cabinet, he has also submitted his resignation to Sedapal, after the case of the Grupo Constructor Parasol company was disclosed. Marrufo said that he resigned in both cases for strictly personal reasons.
waiver. Salatiel Marrufo Alcántara resigned from Sedapal. Photo: diffusion
All detainees have common links
Yenifer Paredes Navarro. Sister-in-law of President Pedro Castillo. She worked in the district municipality of Anguía, where she not only made friends with Mayor Nenil Medina but also with Hugo Espino Lucana, who he had contracts with the municipality and also befriended the burgomaster.
Nenil Medina Guerrero. Mayor since 2019, close friend of the head of state, whom he visited several times to approve an emergency decree to transfer resources to finance public works in Anguía. He visited the Ministry of Housing with Hugo Espino.
Hugo Espino Lucana. Friend of Yenifer Paredes and the presidential family. When he stopped working for the municipality of Anguía, he formed his own construction company and recruited his friend Yenifer Paredes, with whom he remained in contact during the Castillo presidency.
Angie Espino Lucana. Representative of the facade construction company that won a 3 million contract from the municipality of Anguía. She and her brother Hugo gave 90 thousand soles to the brothers David and Walter Paredes, Yenifer’s brothers.
Data
Search. According to the tax bill, all rooms of the presidential residence were inspected, but no trace of Yenifer Paredes was found.
In action. The Public Ministry would initiate actions for alleged obstruction of justice against those who prevented the diligence in the presidential residence, sources indicated.
