The National Elections Jury (JNE) will request from the National Superintendency of Public Records (Sunarp) all information related to the company Peruval Corp. SA, which Rafael López Aliaga founded in 1995.
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In the Affidavit of Resume, which requires candidates to register ownership of shares in companies, López Aliaga only mentioned the Panama subsidiary of Peruval Corp. SA, and not the one he established in Lima 30 years ago.
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According to a query from La República, the JNE pointed out that to verify the alleged omission regarding Peruval Corp. SA of Lima, the electoral body “requests information from the corresponding institutions.”(then) performs the analysis and acts in accordance with the Regulations.”
This newspaper reviewed the file of the company Peruval Corp. SA of Lima that is in Sunarp and that begins with the incorporation file. This document indicates that of the 100,000 shares of the company, Rafael López Aliaga has 5,000 shares and his partner Lorenzo Sousa Debarbieri credited another 5,000. In addition, 90,000 shares were registered in the name of the firm Peruval Agente de Bolsa.
It is important to indicate that the The owners of Peruval Agente de Bolsa are the same López Aliaga and Sousa Debarbieri.
As an investigation of The Republic has revealed it, Peruval Corp. SA of Lima has a coercive debt with Sunat for S/12,979,385. In addition, Peruval Agente de Bolsa (owner of 90,000 shares) also owes S/1,021,503 to Sunat.
According to JNE sources, López Aliaga had to report not only to Peruval Corp. SA, a Panama subsidiary, but also to Peruval Corp. SA, which he founded in 1995.
It is very likely that the Renovación Popular candidate’s intention in hiding Peruval Corp. SA of Lima would be so that the millionaire coercive debt with Sunat would not be known.
Peruval Corp. SA of Lima is part of the consortium that won the concession of the Ferrocarril del Sur y del Sur Orientein 1999. Since then, the concessionaire called Ferrocarril Transandino SA – which controls 50% Peruval Corp. SA and the other 50% the foreign firm Belmond Ltd. – has reported significant income, however it carries a coercive debt with Sunat for S/12,979,385.
López Aliaga’s company, Peruval Corp. SA, is a shareholder in the concessionaire of the southern trains (Ferrocarril Transandino) and owes Sunat S/12.9 million. Photo: The Republic
López Aliaga has said publicly that Sunat has informed him that he does not have any coercive debt. But this entity’s database on tax omissions reported to Risk Centers reports that Peruval Corp. SA of Lima owes taxes for more than S/12.9 million.
Yeah Peruval Corp. SA of Lima is a concessionaire of State assetswith even greater reason López Aliaga should have included said company in the Affidavit of Resume.
“López Aliaga is obliged to declare his shares and interests in said company (Peruval Corp. based in Lima). It is a lack of transparency and it is fraudulent,” said electoral law specialist Kevin Advíncula Medrano.
“What the JNE regulations say is that the candidate must declare all his actions. Therefore (López Aliaga) is obliged to declare. Any omission made by the candidates regarding relevant information in their assets violates the right of all citizens and the electorate to form an opinion regarding the candidates, indicated electoral legislation expert Roy Mendoza Navarro.
Income. Train business reports millionaire profits to López Aliaga’s Peruval Corp. SA. Photo: diffusion
Inspection must intervene
- “What follows is for the JNE inspection area to identify the omission and notify it to the candidate, through the Special Electoral Jury (JEE) so that the candidate can make his defense,” said lawyer Roy Mendoza Navarro.
- “Having omitted information denotes lack of transparency on the part of the candidate, something that must be evaluated in principle by the Special Electoral Jury and also by the citizens who could file a complaint,” said lawyer Kevin Advíncula.
