The former president of Petroperu Humberto Campodonico spoke about his departure from the state entity, which is going through one of its most serious crises since its creation and to which the Government of peter castle has had to make a capital injection of S/ 4,000 million soles in order to reactivate its operation. Regarding his management, he assured that he had the support of the board of directors.
“In political opinion, I must say that I have had support and that we have done what we had to do. From the point of view of the company, we consider that it is a strategic and important company for Peru and that is what we have dedicated ourselves to,” Campodónico said in an interview for Canal N in which also referred to the capital injection that had to be made in favor of the company to keep it in operation.
Campodónico specified: “We cannot be happy with the fact that we had to request money from the public treasury, but it was necessary, otherwise there was risk, the other rating companies were telling us so”. Likewise, he considered that it was “unfortunate” that the objectives of having “own assets and their own cash flow to meet the needs” have been achieved.
The former official also highlighted that the loan made to the state institution is the first in its history. “Petroperú has never asked for money before, since it was founded in 1969. There was none before, not even during the time of hyperinflation,” he asserted.
In addition, he ruled out, from his professional experience, that there will be a future situation in which the company has to request money from the State again.
On the relationship between the company and its union with the Executive, the former official stressed that there were never such great differences between the board of directors and the Government as to affect the institution. This is because, from the directory, always “They had acted accordingly and with the autonomy that was requested to exist from the beginning.”
