Two roads, the same destination. The informal miners of the National Confederation of Small Mining and Artisanal Mining of Peru (Confemin) move their chips with precision as when they extract the dirty gold from the undercut.
While they drive that the Bank of the Nation bought its impure gold metal, they have also designed an alternating plan: that the state entity opens bank accounts to channel their millionaire transactions, which are US $ 6 billion a year.
Both strategies are part of the proposal that Confemin delivered last Saturday to the Energy Commission and Mines of Congress within its package of proposals for the new MAPE Law.
The play is not only a financial procedure, but a sophisticated maneuver to gain legitimacy. If dirty gold cannot be sold directly to the state, then it can be bleached through the banking system. A maze of transactions that, like a caudalous river, drags with it the opacity of its origin until it leads to legality.
Last Sunday, Peru21 revealed the first bet: the attempt to sell gold to the state bank. Now, Plan B is evidenced. How far will informal miners arrive in their shadow game? And what role does the Energy and Mines of Congress play in this departure where legality and convenience seem to merge into the same currency?
Two routes, a path
It is, without a doubt, two routes towards legality. Informal miners advance with calculated steps. For their first proposal – which the Bank of the Nation bought their dirty gold and thus enter the US $ 6 billion that move the financial system per year – already have three bills that are raided the way.
The initiatives belong to the key figures of the Congress: Eduardo Sallejuana, of Alliance for Progress (app) and president of Parliament; Jorge Montoya, spokesman for honor and democracy and member of the Energy and Mining Commission; and Jorge Flores Ancachi, by Podemos. Three legislators, the same goal: to open the door to the millionaire informal mining business.
As for the second proposal, which seeks that the Bank of the Nation open accounts to move their transactions, there are still no bills on the board. However, the general secretary of Confemin, Magno Ismael Palomino, assured Peru21 that they are already weaving alliances to get support. It is not an isolated effort: two weeks ago they met with the advisors of the congressman of the Magisterial Block, Second Quiroz, an ally of Confemin. A no less detail: the president of the Energy and Mines Commission, Paul Gutiérrez, also belongs to that bench and was a decisive piece in the recent expansion of the Integral Mining Formalization Registry (Reinfo).
Legislative chess is underway.
BANCARY ACCOUNTS IN THE BN
This is part of the proposals that Confemin has delivered to the Energy and Mines Commission.
This is an excerpt from the propmin proposal sent to the Congress Energy Commission.
As a justification for the request of the informal miners that the Bank of the Nation opens accounts for their transactions is that in other banks they discriminate against them, and do not want to accept their operations.
The proposal indicates adding a chapter with the name ‘banking of mineral marketing operations’.
“The Bank of the Nation will provide small mining, artisanal producers and ancestral mining producers – indicates the document -, the Banking Services for the Opening of Accounts for the realization of the commercialization and processing operations of mineral, strengthening traceability.”
This is what informal miners say as justification that the BN opens their doors: “Banks are using discriminatory criteria to deny the opening of bank accounts to small miners, which is illegal and goes against the social economy Market, where, although offerings have the right to say who they hire cannot be covered in discriminatory terms, but all differentiation must overcome a reasonableness test, “says the text.
“In this way it is necessary that the State intervene subsidiaryly since the refusal of some banks to open bank accounts generates an oligopoly …”, he concludes.
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