Karol Vílchez, Juan Silva's operator at the MTC, is pointed out by Bruno Pacheco before the Prosecutor's Office

The former secretary general of the Government Palace Bruno Pacheco continues to provide key information to the Public Ministry about the alleged mechanism of corruption that would have been set up around John Silva and the Ministry of Transport and Communications. On this occasion, he pointed to Karol Lizzeth Vilchez Ramirez as the operator of the former minister in the MTC, as revealed by “Fourth Power”, Sunday who agreed to part of his statement.

According to information from the aforementioned program, Karol Vilchez Ramirez is a law graduate who arrived at the MTC in November 2021 with a salary of S/ 14,000 for two months’ work, in order to be in charge of preparing monitoring and evaluation reports in the institution. In March, she was hired again for the same amount, to monitor contracts, agreements and concessions at the MTC.

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Karol Vilchez was able to remain in the Ministry of Transport and Communications, since, after the work carried out for the institution, John Silva would have managed to place her as part of the team of Cabinet Advisors of said portfolio, with a salary of 8,000 soles per month, position he held until June 2022.

According to Bruno Pacheco, the young woman was the key piece of today’s fugitive John Silva in closing public works contracts. She would have come to the MTC on the recommendation of the then official congressman Elijah Varas Melendezwho currently belongs to the ranks of Peru Bicentennial after moving away from Peru Libre.

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The Sunday presented the testimony of Leandro Cernaformer adviser to congressman Elijah Varaswho said he remembered how Karol Vílchez worked in the congressional office of the parliamentarian. She is daughter of Luis Vilcheza man without a record of higher education who works as a technician in Varas’s office and accompanies him to high-level meetings in the Ministries of Women and Production.

Last April, it was seen Elijah Varas and his nephew Jefferson Varas in a vehicle belonging to Karol Vilchez. who was driving the car Luis Vilchezthe father of the young woman identified by Bruno Pacheco as an operator of John Silva at the MTC.

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On the other hand, “Fourth Power” warns that the parliamentarian Elijah Varas I would also have recommended the economist with a master’s degree in public management Jeremias Huaman Ramirez, who worked ad honoren for his office. The Sunday newspaper points out that he would have been recommended as a possible Deputy Minister of Transport.