Between October 30, 2021 and June 30, 2022, Yenifer Paredes Navarro made numerous cash deposits of up to 97,970 soles at the windows of the Banco de la Nación located next to the Government Palace, according to the report who directed the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF), of the Superintendence of Banking and Insurance (SBS), to the Special Team of Prosecutors against Corruption of Power.
The total amount that the sister-in-law of the head of state distributed among relatives, friends and other relatives in the process of identification does not correspond to the income that he has declared before the authorities.
The authorities are struck by the fact that the first deposit was registered a few weeks after Yenifer Paredes and businessman Hugo Espino Lucana, on September 16, 2021, visited the community of La Succha, in the district of Chadín (Chota, Cajamarca). , offering public works for drinking water and sanitation.
Hugo Espino himself has confessed to the Prosecutor’s Office that the visit was part of a plan to irregularly obtain public works contracts with the municipality of Chadín, as he did with Anguía, where he achieved a project of 3 million soles.
Precisely, among the first people to whom Yenifer Paredes makes a deposit is her cousin Roy Oblitas Paredes, brother of Rubdel and Fany Oblitas Paredes, the cousins of Yenifer Paredes implicated by Hugo Espino in the fraudulent hiring.
FIU reports on the unusual cash movements of Yenifer Paredes.
FIU reports on the unusual cash movements of Yenifer Paredes.
FIU reports on the unusual cash movements of Yenifer Paredes.
Prosecutors have also warned that the successive deposits of money began on October 30, 2021, a day after President Pedro Castillo and his Minister of Housing, Geiner Alvarado -involved with “Los Chiclayanos” in directing public works- , signed Emergency Decree 102-2021, on October 29, 2021, which authorizes financing around 500 million soles for a hundred public works, including a score selected by the friends of the head of state.
Hugo Espino and effective collaborators have pointed out that “Los Chiclayanos” knew in advance that Castillo would sign DU 102-2021, which would directly benefit them as compensation for having financed the presidential campaign.
The public works directed in favor of “Los Chiclayanos” exceed 71.9 million soles.
Reports of money movements of the companies JJM Espino Engineering & Construction and Destcon Engineers and Architects of the Espino Lucana.
Reports of money movements of the companies JJM Espino Engineering & Construction and Destcon Engineers and Architects of the Espino Lucana.
“During the period from October 2021 to June 2022, Yenifer Paredes Navarro made 28 cash deposits for the amount of 91 thousand 970 soles”, reports the FIU under the title of “Intensive use of cash”.
The authorities have identified that “Los Chiclayanos” are the former Minister of Housing, Geiner Alvarado, his former head of the Cabinet of Advisors, Salatiel Marrufo Alcántara, the mayor of Anguía, Nenil Medina Guerrero, and businessmen Abel Cabrera Fernández and Segundo Sánchez Sánchez.
The FIU reported that there are five people who accumulate almost 90% (83 thousand 530 soles) of the deposits made by Yenifer Paredes, especially:
- Anani Aguilar Loconi: 40,000
- Miracles Rimarachín Gifted: 20,000.
The Special Team of Prosecutors against Corruption of Power does not rule out that the deposits are part of a “smurf”, which means the dispersion of allegedly ill-gotten funds to the accounts of friends and relatives.
Prosecutors are investigating each of the 26 beneficiaries of Yenifer Paredes’ deposits to establish whether they have any connection to public works tenders.
To this end, the authorities cross-reference information with reports of money movements from the companies of Hugo Espino Lucana and his sister Anggi Espino Lucana, JJM Espino Engineering & Construction and Destcon Engineers and Architects, which were part of the corruption plot, as well as your personal accounts.
So far, the bank reports of Hugo Espino and Anggi Espino, found during the raid on their home carried out by the Special Team led by Colonel PNP Harvey Colchado, confirm the testimony of the former in the sense that he paid bribes to the mayor of Anguía, Nenil Medina, to keep a contract of 3 million soles with a group of businessmen who simulated a tender.
Hugo Espino’s contract with the municipality of Chachapoyas, at the request of the first lady Lilia Paredes.
Hugo Espino’s contract with the municipality of Chachapoyas, at the request of the first lady Lilia Paredes.
Other transfers related to a plan to obtain million-dollar contracts with the district municipality of Chadín and the provincial municipality of Chachapoyas are also recorded.
This last project was linked to the first lady Lilian Paredes, according to a statement by Hugo Espino, who received a special commission from the wife of the head of state to meet with Mayor Víctor Culqui.
Documents linking him to Yenifer Paredes were found in Hugo Espino’s house.
As part of the agreement, Mayor Culqui gave Hugo Espino 50,000 soles in cash.
It is important to remember that the first time that the businessman Hugo Espino Lucana entered the Government Palace was on August 8, 2021, authorized by the first lady Lilia Paredes, according to the records of visits and Espino’s statement.
