He fiscal José Domingo Pérezof the Lava Jato Special Teamrequested the Judiciary suspend for one year the collection of tolls administered by the company Yellow Line. The request is made within the framework of the investigation against Express Limathe former mayor Susana Villarán and OAS.
The fiscal requirement aims to suspend toll collection activities Monterrico, Industrial Separator, St. Anita and Ramiro Priale. All of these in the Via Avoidance. The same thing is sought in the tolls Stadium, Army and Huánuco of the Yellow Line Expressway.
Pérez GómezIn addition, he requested the Seventh National Preparatory Investigation Court to name the Municipality of Lima as “legal administrator” of the areas that were given in concession to the company.
With the measure, according to the requirement of the Special Teamseeks to put an end to the claims of Express Lima to “continue to benefit unduly from the collection of an increased toll through clandestine agreements” concealed via a direct dealing mechanism. In exchange for favoring Línea Amarilla to increase the toll rate, Villarán and his team would have received 4 million dollars to finance his failed re-election campaign.
“Consequently, it is necessary to put an end to the permanence or prolongation of said harmful effects of the crime, in this case, through the temporary suspension of the collection of the toll rate, in order to not continue affecting the population with the collection of a toll rate readjusted and increased under parameters proposed by the concessionaire and outside the legal framework of the concession contract,” the tax requirement reads.
The judge of the preparatory investigation Jorge Chavez Tamariz scheduled the hearing in which the tax request will be evaluated for November 21 at 11:00 in the morning.
Conditions are met
According to the prosecutor José Domingo Pérez, in this case, the budgets to request the suspension of the company’s activities are met. Express Lima: sufficient elements of conviction and procedural danger.
For the first budget, Perez presented 33 elements of conviction, including a conviction, Comptroller’s reports, accounting expertise, statements and the ruling of the Constitutional Court that suspended the collection of Rutas de Lima tolls.
Regarding the procedural danger, the prosecutor recalled that Lima Expresa refused to provide financial information, in addition to the fact that during an investigation of accounting books they alleged that original documents were lost. These scenarios led to the request for a search for seizure purposes.
