The Police and the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, headed by prosecutor Arturo Valencia, raided the main headquarters of the Provincial Municipality of Arequipa (MPA) early today and arrested 7 workers from the Transportation area due to an investigation into the collection of bribes in exchange for erasing traffic tickets.
The mega operation was carried out in order to dismantle the criminal network called Los Incorrigibles del Misti, whose members would be: Yony Martha Rodríguez Zea, María del Rosario Huachaca Supa, Reynaldo Manuel Jaen Rojas, Pedro Rodolfo Taipe Montalvo, Edith Pacheco Chancayauri, Karen Minerva Cazorla Contreras and Elvis Daniel Laura Pilco. They worked in the Transportation Management.
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According to police information, these MPA middle management staff They modified the traffic tickets in the National Sanctions System of the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC). The aim was to change the names of offenders in exchange for money. The amounts range from 2,800 to 5,500 soles.
That would have happened in favor of at least 10 thousand offending drivers, so that these violations are registered in other people’s names and they appear in the system without any violation.
They used data from at least 72 people diedduring the pandemic, and that had violations since 2014. This data was identified last year.
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For the Prosecutor’s Office the alleged crimes of passive bribery, generic active bribery and generic forgery would have been committed. Therefore, it has been carried out the preliminary detention of the 7 people for 10 days.
The mega-operation involved the participation of 16 prosecutors and 166 police officers.
This is not the first time that the Prosecutor’s Office has carried out a similar intervention. In 2020, the Prosecutor Arturo Paiva He carried out the intervention of 15 people who were doing similar actions. At that time, people not only paid to change data on the tickets, but also to avoid having their vehicles impounded.
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In this regard, the head of the Anti-Corruption Directorate, General PNP Luis Alberto Lira Limo, He reported that the criminal modality of this alleged criminal network was to use an external person, who was in charge of recruiting the drivers who had been sanctioned for serious and very serious violations, to delete them from the system.
“It is a criminal activity that has been developing since 2018, and which has benefited 10,000 drivers, who have paid up to 5,500 soles. This is a job that has been carried out in an organized manner. There is one person who has not been arrested because he is abroad. This person was involved in a similar matter, but in Moquegua.”he said.
