Joaquin Ramirez He was a congressman of Peru in the period 2011-2016, as well as financier of the presidential campaign of Keiko Fujimori. With studies in Business Administration and a large number of businesses under his name, the millionaire who was once a combi collector It has been the protagonist of serious complaints in recent years.
Although good luck exists, the case of Joaquin Ramirez It was suspicious for the Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office, especially when he was accused by a former DEA collaborator of financing Keiko Fujimori in his presidential campaign in 2016 with S / 8.2 million generated by money laundering. Find out more about the case of the former congressman below.
Joaquín Ramírez: from combi collector to millionaire
Long before becoming part of Peruvian politics, Joaquín Ramírez was a combi collector. “Sure, of course, from 19 to 20 years old. I studied at the university in the afternoons and in the mornings I was paid every day. I worked a year and a half in the combi”, declared Ramírez in the program “Sin peros en la lengua” with Milagros Leiva in 2014.
The now businessman revealed that while he was studying at La Cantuta University in the 1990s, he traveled a route from La Punta to La Molina in his job as a combi collector. In addition, he stated that he slept in the garage where the car was kept.
In 1993, at the age of 24 and after working as a used car salesman for an importing company, Joaquín Ramírez opened his first company dedicated to the sale of vehicles with saved capital of $3,500: “I was a used car salesman from an importer, when he had ceased to be a collector. They gave me a basic salary and with that I opened my first vehicle import company”.
At 28, he opened his second company in the field of computer sales, as he recounted in an interview with Milagros Leiva: “The computer importer is Capricornio Import, that is the second company. With the first one I started with a capital of 3,500 dollars (…). My capital was enough for two cars. (I raised my capital) with my commissions and with my salaries. I did it in six or seven months.”
Joaquín Ramírez was criticized for alleged money laundering. Photo: The Republic
Over the years, Joaquín Ramírez ventured into the purchase and sale of land until he became the owner of more than S / 7 million, according to the prosecutor Marco Antonio Cárdenas, with his companies Capricornio Import, Lima Engineering and Construction, and Spring Real Estate Promoter. .
Complaints against Joaquín Ramírez
An accusation put Joaquín Ramírez in the eye of the storm. The commercial pilot and former collaborator of the DEA in the United States Jesús Francisco Vásquez Ybáñez asked that the audios that he recorded the millionaire be investigated in which the former congressman informs Keiko Fujimori that he gave her 15 million soles to wash them.
Witness. Jesús Vásquez reiterated version against Fujimori Joaquín Ramírez. Photo: diffusion
Due to the unusual increase in earnings of Joaquín Ramírez, the Public Ministry of Peru detected loan contracts allegedly directed by the Universidad Alas Peruanas for the companies Capricornio Import, Lima Engineering and Construction, Constructora and Inmobiliaria Habitaria, Ofisoft, Technologies, among others, to which were awarded S/ 8.2 million.
According to prosecutor Wilson Salazar Reque, this happened when Fidel Ramírez, the businessman’s uncle, was rector of Alas Peruanas University, with the aim of allocating said amount of illicit money to finance the campaign of Keiko Fujimori.
Other complaints such as the preparation of a false possession certificate in Trujillo, falsification of documents and procedural fraud in Cajamarca, in addition to the DEA’s own investigation for possibly having bought several properties in Miami valued at 20 million dollars illegally, are added to your file.
Joaquin Ramirez today
Despite the fact that Joaquín Ramírez’s trials for money laundering continue to date, the businessman seeks to run for mayor of Cajamarca with the Cajamarca Siempre Verde regional movement, a political group linked to the former Minister of Agriculture and Fujimori, Absalón Vásquez, who was sentenced for corruption to seven years in prison in 2008.
Where was Joaquin Ramirez born?
Joaquín Ramírez was born in Cajamarca, exactly in the district of Nanchoc, province of San Miguel, before moving to Lima to continue his secondary and university studies.
Joaquín Ramírez was a congressman from Peru in the period 2011-2016. Photo: The Republic
How much does a combi collector earn?
According to the WageIndicator Foundation, through its website YourSalary.org/Peruthe minimum and maximum salary of a combi collector in 2022 It is from 958 soles to 3,516 soles per month. However, this varies depending on the number of people using the transport and the number of hours the combi circulates on the streets.
How did combis come about?
In the 1980s, thousands of people who lived in the countryside arrived in the big cities of Peru, fleeing from terrorist violence and poverty. The resulting overpopulation caused the public transport system to collapse. This is how combis emerge, an alternative transport system to cover the enormous demand generated.
