To prevent the authorities from detecting the diversion of public funds from the district municipality of Anguía, Mayor Nenil Medina Guerrero turned to aldermen, officials and servers, as well as family, friends and residents of the area.
Among other purposes, part of the money was for his own benefit and also used it to invest in corruption schemes: the direction of public works.
During the intervention in the places where Nenil Medina lived, the Special Team that coordinates Colonel PNP Harvey Colchado Huamaní found communications with at least twenty people, whom he instructed to make money transfers.
This is a frequent criminal modality to avoid tracing the origin of the flows, in this case, stolen from the budget of the district municipality of Anguía, one of the poorest districts in the country.
In 2019, since Medina assumed the district mayor’s office, the municipal budget was 9.5 million and in 2020 it reached 21.1 million. But it was reduced to 10.1 million in 2021 (amount defined during the Francisco Sagasti government).
However, thanks to his close friendship with President peter castle, Medina obtained financing from the Ministry of Housing for 5 projects for 9.6 million soles, and a work of 19.5 million soles covered by the Ministry of Transport and Communications.
In other words, in 2021 it managed a budget of 39.2 million, by far one of the highest among the Cajamarca districts.
In addition, due to his close ties with President Castillo, Nenil Medina managed to raise its budget from 10.1 million soles, in 2021, to 19 million soles in 2022.
This year, Medina and his accomplices were preparing to carry out a second phase of the theft of public funds, when the Special Team of Prosecutors against Corruption quickly intervened the mayor of Anguía, without giving him the opportunity to disappear evidence.
stealing from the poor
Information on diversion of public funds found among the belongings of Nenil Medina Guerrero has been confirmed by businessman Hugo Espino Lucana, since becoming her close collaborator in 2019.
Espino was aware of Medina’s corruption scheme because he benefited from illegal payments from the mayor of Anguía to set up the bids.
Indeed, Hugo Espino kept a work of 3 million soles, in exchange for paying 10% to Mayor Medina, and was preparing to get others taking advantage of its proximity to the Government Palace, more precisely from the first lady Lilia Paredes Navarro and her sister Yenifer Paredes Navarro.
if applied the same corrupt scheme in the adjudication of the 6 public works that President Castillo authorized for Anguía, and if Nenil Medina charged 10% for each work, it is very likely that he would have collected bribes for a value close to 2.8 and 3 million soles. Only him. The profit of the entrepreneurs is much more considerable. The 6 works total about 30 million soles.
Nenil Medina assigned the works in exchange for bribes to the businessmen who had financed his campaign and those who later also contributed financially to the candidacy of their countryman and friend Pedro Castillo. All the construction companies that obtained contracts in one way or another contributed to the electoral campaigns, such as the Chotan brothers Yonel and Samuel Díaz Gálvez, owners of Asiel Engineering and Construction.
The hand of the chotano
From the beginning of the management medina, the Díaz Gálvez brothers began to win every tender called in Anguía. Between 2019 and 2020, they got contracts for 4.6 million. And in 2021, with the government of the mayor’s friend, Pedro Castillo, the Díaz Gálvez brothers grabbed 2 more contracts for a total of 5.5 million soles. In total, with Nenil Medina, the Díaz Gálvez brothers received works awards for 10.1 million soles.
It was the businessman Hugo Espino Príncipe who betrayed the Díaz Gálvez brothers, whom he knew perfectly because they were part of the corruption scheme.
This is what Hugo Espino said to the Prosecutor’s Office: “Yonel Díaz Gálvez and Samuel Díaz Gálvez, who are brothers and contractors, They also deposited money in my account by order of Nenil Medina Guerrero, since they supported the campaign for his candidacy for mayor (Medina). And this in the form of compensation gave several works to his company called Asiel Engineering (and Construction) ”.
Samuel Diaz Galvez and Yonel Diaz Galvez. Photo: LR composition
Hugo Espino confessed that Medina’s practice of diverting funds was discovered in the first year of management, when he himself participated in the corrupt scheme. He said so: “Since 2019 I have been receiving and making deposits of various sums of money by order and coordination of Nenil Medina, from the district municipality of Anguía, through the treasurer, Rony Irigoin Vásquez.”
The money that Hugo Espino received from the municipality of Anguía was later delivered in cash to Nenil Medina. The transfers were initiated by the treasurer Irigoin, but later other characters followed:
- The alderman Alindo García Olivera.
- The secretary of the municipality, Thalía Gálvez Mejía.
- The municipal coordinator Genebrardo Cabrera Delgado.
- The worker Dany Chávez Saldaña.
- The worker Orestes Burga Fernández.
- The worker Pamela Delgado Ríos.
- The settler José Saavedra Díaz.
- The engineer Tito Cerdán Muñoz.
- The worker Lucinda Contreras Fernández.
- The worker Dilmer Collantes Cadenillas.
“I want to make it clear that I handed over all this money personally to Nenil Medina”, Hugo Espino specified.
He stole funds from Anguía, one of the poorest districts in the country.
Data
Methodology. The case of the district of Anguía confirms the existence of a pattern of corruption that is often repeated in different places from the country.
Exercise. Entrepreneurs finance the electoral campaigns of the candidates and, if the candidate is elected, repay the expense through the allocation of public works. Of the total project, the mayor keeps 10%, also called ‘tithe’. The rest goes to the hands of the entrepreneurs.
For 2021, Anguía’s budget was only S / 10.1 million. Pedro Castillo gave him almost S/ 30 million more for public works.
