In July 2021, the then Peruvian president Pedro Castillo charged $40,000 to each of the eight police colonels who wanted to be promoted to army generals. It was his private secretary, Bruno Pacheco, who revealed the details to the prosecutor’s office in charge of handling the corruption case of the president of Peru.
This column has the judicial file.
“The efforts were carried out by (president) Castillo himself; by his custodian Jorge Tarrillo, alias Sombra; by the Minister of Defense, Walter Ayala González; the undersecretary (of the presidency) Beder Camacho”, and Bruno Pacheco himself.
One afternoon, Pacheco complained to the Shadow that he had not included him in the business: “You are taking it alone.”
On November 19, 2021, President Pedro Castillo reported through the official newspaper the promotion of those who had paid him $320,000: Nicasio Zapata Súclupe, Enrique Antonio Goycochea Chunga, Freddy Aristo del Carpio León, Edward Rando Espinoza López, Manuel Jesúr Rivera López, Eginardo Diego Pérez Chávez, Max Henry García Esquivel and Pedro Rodolfo Villanueva Nole.
President Pedro Castillo became the head of a criminal organization.
A modest employee of the municipality of Anguía, in Cajamarca, spoke with a group of residents to offer them a public works project.
“It is very gratifying for me, for my colleagues, to be with you today. I thank you in advance for the mayor’s invitation and for the support also provided.” The scene is recorded by a man wearing a vest from the company JJM Espino Engineering & Construction. At his side was Hugo Espino Lucana, the company’s general manager.
Her name: Yenifer Noelia Paredes Navarro, sister of President Pedro Castillo’s wife, Lilia Paredes Navarro, and at the same time sister-in-law, but she was also presented as the president’s daughter because she had been raised in his house since she was born.
“The profile is already approved for your project. So, I came today to obtain the necessary data to carry out and approve the project I need,” Yenifer told the people around her.
Yenifer did not have a public position, but President Castillo used her as a facilitator of public works contracts.
Hugo Espino had won several tenders in the Castillo government. He was very close to Yenifer, but also negotiated with Castillo’s wife, Lilia Paredes Navarro.
The López Obrador government granted asylum to Lilia Paredes without taking into account that she also participated in acts of corruption, committing two crimes: influence peddling and collusion. Today he lives in Mexico with a state budget.
Captain Gian Marco Dueñas watched the video where Yenifer appears. At one point a voice is heard saying: “Comrades, a stop, the lawyer (in reference to Yenifer) has asked that you please not record. Nobody knows that the president’s daughter is here, please, you know that it is quite delicate. Don’t be recording.”
Prosecutor Marita Sonia Berreto Rivera requested an arrest warrant against Yenifer, the president’s sister-in-law, but also the businessman Hugo Espino and the mayor of Anguía.
The bribery of the tender in Anguía amounted to 3 million soles (16.5 million Mexican pesos).
On August 9, 2022, the police, with a court order, entered the presidential palace to arrest Yenifer, sister-in-law and daughter of President Castillo.
From Mexico, AMLO was outraged by what happened.
To be continued.
