The Special Team that supports the Prosecutor’s Offices against the Corruption of Power discovered on July 27 of this year that Walter Paredes Navarro works for the construction company Las Palmas Contratistas Generales. Yenifer Paredes Navarro is not the only one related to the public works financed by her brother-in-law and adoptive father, President peter castle.
During an intelligence job in the district of Tacabambain the province of Chota, Cajamarca region, The agents found Walter Paredes moving personnel from the contracting company with his Toyota Hiace vehicle with license plate F3Q-322.
According to Public Records, the passenger transport machine is in the name of Walter Paredes Navarro.
The brother-in-law of the head of state is already under investigation for having delivered, together with his brother David Paredes Navarro, 90,000 soles to the contractors Hugo and Anggi Espino Lucana. In addition, Yenifer Paredes and the Espino brothers are under arrest for their involvement in the tender for a 3 million soles project in the district of Anguía.
On August 4, in a new raid by the special team, this time in Anguía, it detected Walter Paredes Navarro transporting construction company personnel in his vehicle Las Palmas General Contractorsproving that it was President Castillo’s brother-in-law.
The presence of Walter Paredes in a public work in the town of his brother-in-law, the head of state, confirms that the presidential family is heavily involved in state contracts financed by order of President Castillo and awarded to companies related to the Paredes Navarro family.
It is surprising that, according to debt reports, Walter Navarro Paredes registers small loans, but You own a passenger transport vehicle that requires a significant investment.
Hello, Tacabamba?
On February 1st of this year, the District Municipality of Tacabamba, with funds authorized by the former Minister of Transportation and Communications, the now fugitive Juan Silva Villegas, granted a work of 30 million 994 thousand 48 soles to the company Las Palmas Contratistas Generales.
President Castillo was born in the community of Puña, located in the district of Tacabamba, in the Cajamarcan province of Chota, so it is not ruled out that he had a special interest in financing the construction of a communal road that benefited his beloved town where he was born.
The agents of the special team also found different vehicles and heavy machinery in the works where they located Walter Paredes. For example, an Iveco Trakker 380T38 truck, license plate C3B-322. The Republic verified in Public Records that the heavy vehicle is registered in the name of the Total Trade company, whose owner is known by the investigators of this newspaper: Omar Iberico Grández.
Iberico also owns the construction company Ibervial, to which the mayor of Anguía, the now imprisoned Nenil Guerrero, An intimate friend of President Castillo and the Paredes Navarro family, he awarded him a project worth 19.5 million soles without bidding. The invitation to Ibervial was direct, so it is presumed that he has a link with Nenil Guerrero. But there is more.
Omar Iberico from Ibervial won the contract despite the fact that he has a coercive debt with Sunat for 5.9 million soles and was convicted of corruption in a public work.
In addition, it obtained the award in consortium with the Parasol Builder Group, by Rocio Pintado Cruz. The Republic visited the premises that the businesswoman stated in the contract, and found an abandoned and inactive place in Ventanilla.
Everything fits, sir
As if that were not enough, on August 9, when the mayor of Anguía, Nenil Guerrero, was arrested, he was in a vehicle driven by businessman Daniel Príncipe Collazos. In an interview with the Sunday ‘Fourth power’, Príncipe admitted that he has been a friend for two decades of the owner of Grupo Constructor Parasol, Rocío Pintado Cruz, who won the 19.5 million soles project. It’s more, Daniel Príncipe and Rocío Pintado are neighbors in Ventanilla, wall to wall. More was missing.
It was during the administration of the mayor of Tacabamba, Walter Agip Rojas, that with funds from Decentralized Provías, from the MTC, the construction company Las Palmas Contratistas Generales, whose representative is Elizabeth Ticlla Rafael, was awarded the 30.9 million soles project. chotana for a change, and sister of former Fujimori congressman Carlos Ticlla Rafael.
Like his colleague from Anguía, Nenil Medina, the mayor of Tacabamba, Walter Agip Rojas, also visited the Ministry of Housing and Construction and held meetings with the former head of the firm’s advisory cabinet, Salatiel Marrufo Alcantara. By coincidence, As Marrufo himself confirmed to La República, he worked as legal advisor to Mayor Nenil Medina. Everything matches.
President Castillo has been very generous with his people.
In addition to the 30.9 million soles communal road project, the head of state took the opportunity to finance a drinking water and sanitation project for 3 million soles in Tacabamba, included in Emergency Decree 102-2021.
Precisely, the Prosecutor’s Offices against Corruption of Power investigate the aforementioned emergency decree that ordered the financing of drinking water and sanitation works in more than 100 districts for 82.7 million soles.
It draws attention that Most of the projects financed by the emergency decree signed by President Pedro Castillo correspond to more than 30 districts of Cajamarca.
Undoubtedly, the Cajamarca region has several districts in a situation of poverty and extreme poverty that urgently require public works. But if there is no transparency in the tenders, it’s wasted money.