Noemí Alvarado Llanos questions the version of her former boss’ suicide, Nile Burga Malcaowner of the canned food producer Frigoincawho was found dead in a hotel on the afternoon of December 25. She, who worked for him for six years and became his “star salesperson,” maintains that Burga was the victim of a crime. Because of this, he feels fear, has changed residence and lives in hiding.
Alvarado’s statement is based on the last days he shared with Nilo Burga, from the time the first report of the Sunday newspaper ‘Punto Final’ was broadcast until the businessman changed his strategy. And she felt relegated, separated, “abandoned,” as she would say.
Burga was dedicated body and soul to defending his company. And it was no wonder. For the 2024 Qali Warma school campaign, its Frigoinca factory signed 28 contracts for S/81.7 million. For Noemi Alvaradothe image of a desperate man who chose suicide to get rid of his problems is not the one he saw when he spoke with Nilo Burga in the last days.
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— “Do you consider that Nilo Burga’s death was a suicide? Or did he kill himself? What do you believe?” he was asked.
“I believe they killed him,” he responded, according to a statement from Noemí Alvarado to which La República had access.
— “Do you then consider that they wanted to silence Mr. Nilo Burga?” he was questioned again.
“Yes, it hurts quite a bit,” he replied.
TO Noemi Alvarado he was surprised by the news of the death of Nile Burgabecause since the corruption scandal broke out they were in contact. There was an initial moment in which they sought to respond together to the accusations of paying bribes to officials and civil servants. Qali Warma and of the General Directorate of Environmental Health (Digesa), to hide the anomalies detected by schoolchildren when consuming Don Simón preserves. And also to avoid inspection of the contents of the cans and discovering the use of horse meat.
“I have nothing to do with the death of Mr. Nilo (Burga). I’m sorry. I swear that I am also devastated, I am sick,” said Noemí Alvarado, who has requested to benefit from effective collaboration.
Noemí Alvarado’s stolen cell phone
As Noemi Alvarado refused to appear before the authorities accepting responsibility for bribery payments and other allegedly illegal activities, then, Nile Burga and his lawyer Félix Chero hatched another formula. According to Alvarado’s version, they convinced her husband, Gonzalo Barreto Burga, who did odd jobs in Frigoinca.
Gonzalo Barreto He was taken to the Notaría Cruzado, in Miraflores, on September 25, 2024, and signed an affidavit in which he claimed that he had stolen Noemí Alvarado’s cell phone and sold it for S/30,000 to the journalist Martín Riepl and the businessman Josías Sanchez Davila. Barreto stated that Riepl, whose family owns the production company Gambrinus preservesand Sánchez, owner of CAAS Foodthey wanted to remove their main competitor, Frigoinca, from the market. For this purpose, Gonzalo Barreto stole Noemí Alvarado’s cell phone, and then Riepl leaked the device to ‘Punto final’.
The false version was intended to distort the revelations in ‘Punto final’.
“The sworn statement of the father of my children (Gonzalo Barreto) was made by Mr. Félix Chero on the orders of Mr. Nilo Burga and (his son) Michael Burgaat the Cruzado Notary Office, where they make all their documents. They forced my husband. Before they wanted me to incriminate myself. Since I refused, they went to my husband telling him: ‘(If you sign the document), then you will no longer have problems.’ That sworn statement was before the ‘Punto final’ report and was made by the company (Frigoinca),” declared Noemí Alvarado.
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Better tell the truth
However, Nilo Burga and his son Michael Burga Farrothe executive operator of Frigoincathey panicked when ‘Cuarto Poder’, on Sunday, November 10, 2024, revealed that you keep Don Simón, who Qali Warma distributed to schoolchildren, it contained horse meat. The Burgas, father and son, believed that Noemí Alvarado and her partner Gonzalo Barreto were the ones who were leaking the information to Sunday because they both knew of the deception.
After signing the affidavit with false information, Nile Burga began a frantic search for Gonzalo Barreto. He even found out that he was in a rehabilitation center, and sent to look for him there, but he had already left.
“I think I was looking for him to silence him. Then, my husband (Gonzalo Barreto) told me: ‘Look, Noemí, we’d better tell the truth.’ The thing is that my husband also knows a lot, because Mr. Nilo Burga also told him things. My husband knows that there was horse meat in the preservesbecause he was going to the food plant to take the trucks. He was a key piece in this. And he (Nilo Burga) knew it,” explained Noemí Alvarado, according to statements to which The Republic had access.
Gonzalo Barreto, as Noemí Alvarado acknowledged, did dirty work for Frigoinca at the direction of Nilo Burga. He mentioned as an example the handling of preserves Don Simonchanging the labeling or deleting inscriptions on the cans. Barreto became part of the intimate environment of the owner of the food factory.
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“My husband went to Miraflores, he went to the Miraflores parties, he went to meetings with Mr. Nile Burga when it was his birthday (on block 12 of Avenida del Ejercito, Miraflores, Nilo Burga had an office),” he added.
I called him: ‘Gonzalo, come.’ I even (invited him) to the sauna too, where he lived, in the hotel, I took him to my husband (Sauna Luz y Luna hotel, where Nilo Burga had room 301 reserved). In 2022 they shared, I think, in the sauna. My husband was there, they ate dry goat with beans or something like that,” said Noemí Alvarado.
Therefore, the Nilo Burga’s former trusted worker doubts suicide.
It didn’t seem to him that he was someone in a state of desperation, determined to take his own life to end the problems that were gripping him. Believe in murder… And does not rule out that it could be one of the objectives of those who wanted nothing more to be known about the outrages of Frigoinca and his accomplices Qali Warma and Digesa.
“I’m afraid to go out of the house. I am isolated with my daughters. We cannot lead a normal lifel, do you understand me? We are very afraid. I’m not playing poor. It’s just that I am a person who has been a victim of all this (of Frigoinca), perhaps out of ignorance. “I didn’t know what I was getting into,” he said. Noemi Alvaradokey witness in the case.
Félix Chero: “I don’t know that Mr. Gonzalo Barreto”
- Félix Chero Medina, the former Minister of Justice who served as Nilo Burga’s lawyer when the Frigoinca corruption case was uncovered, stated that the version that he pressured Gonzalo Barreto, Noemí Alvarado’s husband, to falsely report the cell phone theft is false. of your partner.
- “It is absolutely false. I don’t know where this lady gets that version from. I understand your situation of being involved in such a serious incident, but first of all I don’t know that man (Gonzalo Berreto),” Chero said.
- “There was a meeting between Michael Burga (son of Nilo Burga) and Noemí Alvarado, at her request. I explained to them what procedures they could carry out and what procedures they could follow by telling the truth. I have never induced him to perform this or that act. Any other version in this regard is completely false,” said Félix Chero.
