During the contracting process of three public works for S/338 million, the Regional governments of Libertad and Loreto allegedly favored the company LC & EC Constructorawhose owner, Lucero Coca Condori, is only 23 years old and lacks experience in building public works, according to reports from the Comptroller.
During the management of the Liberteño Governor César Acuña Peraltahe is He granted LC & EC Constructora two contracts for S/315.6 millionone for the authorization of one route between Trujillo and Huanchaco and another for the building of a hospital in Virú.
In the case of Loretan governor Jorge Chávez Silvano, granted the same company a contract for S/22.4 million for the recovery of the Regional Hospital.
Until that time, Lucero Coca Condori had never hired public entities for large -dimension works. Overnight he appeared leading consortiums with other construction companies.
After the Sunday “Panorama” revealed that LC & EC Constructora acted as a facade company to obtain contracts for the benefit of other companies, the Comptroller intervened to verify how the young Lucero Coca Condori in just over a year suspected three contracts for S/338 million (two works in La Libertad and one in Loreto), surpassing other companies with much greater recognition.
At first, César Acuña, and its regional manager, Herguein Namay Valderrama, defended the contracts with LC & EC Constructora, ensuring that the processes were transparent, despite the fact that it was discovered that Lucero’s father Coca Condori, Juan Coca Rojas, had visited the headquarters of the Government of Freedom.
However, after the intervention of the auditors of the Comptroller, this Entity has detected serious deficiencies in the processes of awarding of the Regional Governments of Libertad and Loreto.
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Evident favoritism
For the construction work of the Trujillo road to Huanchaco, LC & EC Constructora led a consortium together with Marquisa General Contractors, and for the building of the Virú Hospital, he headed another consortium composed of JM Peruvian builders and riva branch of Peru. Both consortia are represented by Lucero Coca Condori.
According to the control report of the process of awarding the construction work of the Trujillo-Huanchaco road, the Auditors found that the Lucero Coca consortium presented false and inconsistent documentationand recorded technicians who had not accredited experience. This was enough reason for the members of the selection committee to disqualify the Coca Consortium.
Instead, the members of the committee gave a high score to the Lucero Coca consortium, drawing with another bidder. A “raffle” was made, and the Coca company was winning.
Similar anomalies found the auditors in the case of the award of the building of the Virú Hospital: the Committee accepted as valid documents without legalized signaturesgave him an improper score and let the breach of the minimum experience required.
Sources from the Comptroller informed this newspaper that deficiencies of this type are usually recurring for the benefit of any of the bidders, so Governor César Acuña has been recommended to annul the contracts with LC & EC Constructora.
Before the intervention of the Comptroller, Lucero Coca presented a precautionary measure to avoid losing the Trujillo-Huanchaco contract for S/121 million. It is likely to do the same to continue with the construction of the Virú hospital for S/194 million.
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Evidence of favoritism in adjudications
A sample of the obvious favoritism by the Selection Committee who awarded the construction work of the Virú Hospital, is that “He gave” 5 points to the Coca Condori Lucero Consortium, adding 100 points, giving misunderstanding Regarding the other competitors.
And in the case of the Trujillo-Huanchaco road, the Selection Committee prevented a consortium from correcting a material errordirectly benefiting the Lucero Coca consortium. It is important to highlight that the same regional government officials participated in the two selection committees: Walter Zevallos Apolitano and Arturo Giles Mendoza, who are under fiscal investigation.
