The broad-based cabinet announced by the president peter castle remained in words. Of the total number of ministers whom the president swore in last Tuesday, two are in the sights of the Public Ministry, another two had complaints of violence against women and one defended a person sentenced for rape.
health at stake
The president appointed the cerronista doctor Hernán Condori as head of the Ministry of Health (Minsa), replacing Hernando Cevallos. Condori is a member of Peru Libre and loyal and close to Vladimir Cerrón.
What is controversial is that Condori, in addition to having been a promoter of ivermectin and other products without scientific evidence, is that he has an investigation for corruption. On June 17 of last year, According to Epicentro TV, the prosecutor Sarita Flor Jara Beteta formalized a preparatory investigation against the Minister of Health and six officials from the Chanchamayo Health Network, in Junín.
Hernan Condori
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The crimes imputed to him are alleged improper collection and incompatible negotiation for acts of corruption that would have happened in this health network, when it was directed by Condori in 2019. That year Cerrón was governor of Junín.
The tax thesis is that those investigated abused their positions in hiring personnel and charged S/ 10,000 and S/ 20,000, respectively, to applicants for technical and professional staff.
But this is not the only act investigated in the passage of Hernán Condori through Junín. A report from the Comptroller’s Office maintains that in 2017 Condori and ten officials from the Diresa de Junín they had administrative responsibility for the purchase of a tomograph, which cost S/ 1,125,000, for Hospital II La Merced.
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That year the audit found the scanner inoperative. Then the minister was director of the Chanchamayo Health Network. This management did not, according to the Comptroller’s file, present the necessary information for the acquisition.
Hernán Condori is widely questioned for his curriculum in the health sector. Photo: composition by Jazmín Ceras / La República
Another point of concern is that the head of the Minsa is a surgeon and, despite this, he attended an obstetric office. In the registry of the Medical College of Peru (CMP) it appears that he does not have that specialty. The dean of the CMP, Raúl Urquizo, told La República that what corresponds is that he be investigated ex officio in his collegiate.
For Friday, the minister was summoned by the National Council of the CMP to clarify this issue and present its work plan.
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Dina Boluarte, Vice President and Minister of Social Inclusion, was included last year by prosecutor Richard Rojas in the investigation against Vladimir Cerrón and Peru Libre for alleged money laundering.
The new Minister of Agriculture, Oscar Zea, had an investigation for embezzlement to the detriment of the Municipality of Huancané, in Puno. Through his Twitter account, the minister specified that this inquiry was archived. “This process concluded by dismissal, so there is currently no investigation,” he replied.
As is known, Zea is also a congressman for Peru Libre.
Justice, Ángel Yldefonso Narro; MIDIS, Dina Boluarte. Photo: LR composition
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Complaints of violence
On February 3, Latina revealed that Defense Minister José Luis Gavidia had been denounced for family violence by his wife in September of last year. The accusation is based on the fact that the head of the Mindef harassed his spouse for alleged infidelity. The case arrived at the San Borja police station.
On August 2, it was known by the Fourth Estate that on March 28, 2011, the Minister of Transportation, Juan Silva, was denounced by his ex-partner for physical and psychological aggression.
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defended rapist
The Minister of Justice, Ángel Fernando Yldefonso Narro, who replaces today’s Prime Minister Aníbal Torres, sponsored Carlos Yasmani Tuesta, a sentenced to 25 years in prison for sexual abuse against a minor. In 2014, Yldefonso Narro asked the Supreme Court to review said sentence so that Yasmani Tuesta could be acquitted. However, it was not successful.
Ydelfonso Narro replaced Aníbal Torres in the Justice portfolio. Photo: Gerardo Marin/The Republic
The key
College. The dean of the Medical Association of Peru, Raúl Urquizo, said that, if it is verified that Minister Condori practiced as an obstetrician without being a specialist, It can be sanctioned up to a suspension.
