The movements of the dollar account of the aspiring effective collaborator Jaime Villanueva They would confirm the collection of alleged bribes during the administration of the dismissed former Attorney General of the Nation Patricia BenavidesThe former advisor voluntarily submitted these reports to the Special Team against Corruption in Power (Eficcop).
After accepting effective cooperation in December 2023 following his arrest, Villanueva released new information about the alleged criminal organization. Among the facts revealed are the archiving of investigations of clients of the lawyer and former advisor of Dina Boluarte, Oscar Nieves; the removal of prosecutors to benefit Jose Luis Castillo Alvathe appointment of prosecutors and interest in tenders for the Public ministryAll these events share a common denominator: the alleged receipt of illicit money.
Favors to ‘Pepe Lucho’
According to the statement of Villanuevathe alleged larger bribe that he and Miguel Girao It was $60,000 from Mirtha Gonzalez Yep to achieve the removal of the prosecutors of the White Collar Special Team to benefit your partner Jose Luis Castillo Alva ‘Pepe Lucho’. The objectives were the then coordinator Jorge Luis Diaz Cabello and the prosecutors Andy Junior Rodriguez Dominguez and Max Castro Huaman.
Late March, Gonzales Yep made a first payment, he says Villanuevaof $10,000, of which the ‘philosopher’ took $5,000. He would entrust him Francesco Francois Franco Floresthen management assistant of the Office of the Attorney Generalto deposit $4,000 into his BBVA account. This amount appears in Villanueva’s April transaction report.
The second disbursement would be in the week of April 17-23. This time it would have been delivered to the advisors of Benavides $20,000. The amount was divided equally and Villanueva I would ask again Franco Flores to make the deposits into his account, but on separate dates: $5,000 in that week and $3,000 in May. The remaining $2,000 on his part was used for everyday expenses. These transactions are also accredited in the documents he submitted to the Eficcop.
In the first days of June Gonzales Yep gave 30 thousand soles to Villanuevabut it is not specified where this money went. The opposite occurred with the $14,000 that remained to complete the $60,000 agreed upon. Villanueva claims that of the $7,000 that corresponded to him, he deposited, through Franco Flores$6,900.
The advisors would then receive two “bonuses”: one of $5,000 in August for achieving the removal of the prosecutors and another of $4,000 in September for achieving the departure of Magaly Quiroz of the coordination of the White Collar Special TeamThe ‘philosopher’ said that of this last additional amount he deposited 1,900 dollars into his BBVA account, a transaction that effectively appears.
The money trail
In his statement, Jaime Villanueva He assured that Miguel Girao used part of the $34,500 he received from Gonzalez Yep to pay off debts incurred for the down payment on an apartment valued at one million soles.
“He paid me a debt he had with me of approximately $13,000 that I lent him at the beginning of 2023,” he said. Villanueva.
According to the former advisor, Girao He also sent to Franco Flores to make deposits into your BBVA dollar account.
“In April 2023, for the amount of ten thousand dollars, in two deposits of 5,000 dollars each, then in June 2023, he made two deposits of 500 and 2,000 dollars respectively, paying me a total of 12,500 dollars,” he said. These operations reported by Villanueva do indeed appear in his transactions.
Alleged bribes for tenders
Jaime Villanueva He also handed over to the Prosecutor’s Office the report of movements of October 2023, month in which he would have received 10,000 soles for supposedly directing a tender for computers for the Public Ministry together with Miguel Girao, Jorge Luis Palomino Quezada and Patricia Benavides.
According to the investigation, of this amount, Villanueva He converted 5,000 soles into 1,200 dollars and deposited them in his bank account. This transaction appears in the report he provided. The former advisor told the Eficcop that, for this fact, 30,000 soles would have been given to the former Attorney General of the Nation.
