On July 27 and August 4 of this year, the agents of the Special Team that support the actions of the Prosecutors against the Corruption of Power, they found President Pedro Castillo’s brother-in-law, Walter Paredes Navarro, working on a construction site in Tacabamba, the town where the head of state was born. Later The Republic confirmed that Paredes had been hired by the construction company Las Palmas Contratistas Generales, to mobilize the workers in a van. Coincidence? No way.
In his statements as a protected witness, the businessman Hugo Espino Lucana told the authorities that the mayor of Anguía, medina Guerrero confided that the construction of a road to unite various communities, both in Anguía and Tacabamba, had already been coordinated with President Castillo and former Minister of Transport and Communications Juan Silva Villegas. Medina was looking for a company to take over the work, willing to pay the 10% bribe.
President Castillo and former Minister Silva, through Decentralized Provías, authorized 19 million 549,670 soles for the stretch in the Anguía area and 30 million 994.48 soles for Tacabamba.
as reported The RepublicMayor Nenil Medina awarded the 19.5 million construction project to Grupo Constructor Parasol, owned by Daniel Obregón Flores, financier and promoter of the peter castle.
Photo: Aldair Mejía/ The Republic
Hugo Espino informed the Prosecutor’s Office that Nenil Medina took advantage of his close relationship with the head of state and Juan Silva to obtain the funds. Espino has said that Medina charged 10% of the total cost of the work, and he knows because the mayor paid him for the assignment of a project of three million soles.
The mayor of Tacabamba, Walter Agip Rojas, who received 30.9 million soles for the communal road, He is also a friend of President Castillo and the mayor of Anguía, Nenil Medina. And like this, Agip also visited the Government Palace to meet with the head of state and was also in the office of the first lady Lilia Paredes.
On September 9, 2021, Walter Agip held a meeting with the president at the Palace from 8:56 a.m. to 10:23 a.m.
On October 22 of the same year, the mayor of Tacabamba and his son Daniel Agip Alarcón met with Irma Rojas Regalado, from the office of Lilia Paredes, in the Palace, from 9:42 to 11:23 in the morning.
After these contacts, on February 1st of this year, Mayor Walter Agip awarded the 30.9 million work in favor of Las Palmas Contratistas Generales. This is the company that later hired Walter Paredes to transport the workers.
Neptalí Ticlla Rafael, administrator of Las Palmas and brother of the owner, Elizabeth Ticlla Rafael, alleged that he did not know that Walter Paredes was the president’s brother-in-law.
Brother in law. Constructora Las Palmas hired Walter Paredes. Photo: diffusion
“We give work to many carriers on a rotating basis, a couple of months, sometimes a month, and I have not known that (Walter Paredes) was the brother-in-law (of the president). It never crossed my mind that he was Castillo’s brother-in-law,” Neptalí Ticlla explained.
Sources related to the team of Prosecutors against Corruption do not rule out that just as it happened in Anguia, the contracting of the work in Tacabamba was also addressed.
By the way, in 2020, during the management of Nenil Medina in Anguía, a company owned by the sons of the mayor of Tacabamba, Dwar SAC, won a contract for 5.9 million. Everyone knows each other and everyone wins.
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The 30.9 million soles work was awarded after Mayor Walter Agip met with President Pedro Castillo.
