The presidential candidate who leads the polls, Rafael Lopez Aliagarecognized that his company registered in Lima, Peruval Corp. SA, maintains a coercive debt for S/13 million with the National Superintendence of Tax Administration (Sunat).
On February 12, 2021, in an interview with journalist Nicolás Lúcar, López Aliaga admitted that he had amassed a fortune that exceeds US$1,000 million with businesses in the hotel and railway transportation sectors. Peruval Corp. SA is key to the origin of the millionaire assets of the former mayor of Lima.
However, in the Affidavit of Resume that he presented before the National Elections Jury (JNE)as a candidate for the presidency of the Republic in this year’s process, López Aliaga only stated his relationship with the company Peruval Corp. SA, which is registered in Panama. He ignored Peruval Corp. SA, which he incorporated in Peru. This is the one that owes S/13 million in taxes.
“But, in the end, how much do you owe Sunat?” journalist Milagros Leiva asked López Aliaga on Sunday, February 8, on the Panamericana program “Sin Rodeos.”
“The Republic at the time, 4 years ago, took away seven companies from me, (with a debt of) 30 million (soles). Now there is only one company left litigating for 13 million. But 13 million that were initially 20 thousand soles. But they don’t notify you. So, you just found out,” replied the mayor of Renovación Popular.
Indeed, when López Aliaga presented his CV in the first presidential campaign in which he participated, in 2021, seven of the companies he reported faced coercive debts of S/34 million. Among the debtor companies was Peruval Corp. SAfrom Lima, which then owed S/17.3 million.
According to Sunat records, the candidate was duly notified from May 7, 2012, on 24 occasions, until 2021 when La República revealed the coercive debt of Peruval Corp. SA, the company that won the railway concession and which is a shareholder in another López Aliaga company that manages the hotel concession in Cusco.
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The winning number
López Aliaga added, ratifying the current amount of the coercive debt with Sunat that he uncovered The Republic: “So, I say, (they are) 13 million which are the composition of 20 thousand soles for more than 20 years. It cannot be, since we were not notified. They only appeared in 2019. “It’s crazy.”
Confirmed, then, through the mouth of the Popular Renewal candidate himself, that there is a coercive debt. But it’s not just any debt.
In 1999, Peruval Corp. SA, which is registered in Lima, won the concession for the South and South East Railway in Peru, completing the prosperous business that began in 1995, when López Aliaga obtained the concessions for the Hotel Monasterio and the Machu Picchu Sanctuary Lodge. This conglomerate is the presidential candidate’s main source of wealth, according to his statements.
Currently, Both businesses are part of the company Perú Holding de Hoteles SAA.among whose shareholders is Peruval Corp. SA, which owes S/13 million to Sunat.
The concession of the trains is in charge of the firm Ferrocarril Transandino SA (Fetransa), in which Peruval Corp. SA of Lima participated until 2014, and then was replaced the following year by the Panamanian “offshore” of the same name, Peruval Corp. SA.
This explains why the presidential candidate of Popular Renewal broke out when an investigation by La República detected that he had omitted to mention Peruval Corp. SA of Lima in the CV he presented to the JNE.
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Double name, same business
As La República has shown, In the years 2023, 2024 and 2025, in his capacity as mayor of Lima, López Aliaga recorded in his Affidavits of Interests (DJI), who was president, general manager and attorney of Peruval Corp. SA of Limabetween 1995 and 2022, a period in which the debt of S/13 million was generated.
In the same DJI, the candidate recorded that he is currently still president of Peruval Corp. SA of Panama, the “offshore” that manages the concession of the southern and southeastern trains.
This means that López Aliaga maintains links with the company registered with the same name in both Lima and Panama and that he had a key participation in the origin of his wealth estimated at US$1,000 million.
“Now there is only one company (Peruval Corp. SA of Lima) litigating for 13 million (soles),” López Aliaga acknowledged.
He could allocate 0.34% of his US$1 billion fortune to pay off the coercive debt.
