The fourth National Collegiate Criminal Court will issue the sentence for the illegal award of the project tomorrow Lima meter in favor of the Odebrecht company during the second government of Alan García (2006-2011).
The main defendant is the former Minister of Communications, Jorge Cuba Hidalgo, for whom the Public Ministry asks for a 35 -year prison sentence.
The other former officials of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MTC) are Mariella Huerta, Edwin Luyo and Miguel Navarro.
According to prosecutor José Domingo Pérez, the Brazilian construction company paid US $ 8 million in coimas to win the tender and Cuba would have been in charge of directing the bidding processes to benefit the firm.
Jorge Barata, former leadership of Odebrecht in Peru, said that the illicit money was deposited in OP Shore accounts open in the private bank of Andorra.
The imputations are also reinforced with the declaration of the former director of Odebrecht contracts, Antonio Carlos Nostre, who confirmed to the Peruvian authorities the payment of the coimas, although in his statement to prosecutor Pérez, in October 2018, he said that the total amount of bribes was more than US $ 24 million.
Santiago Chau Novoa, former MTC official; Víctor Muñoz Cuba and Jessica Tejada, nephew and sentimental couple of Jorge Cuba, respectively, for whom 25 years in prison was required. For former servants Jesús Munive Taquía and Magdalena Bravo Hinostroza, 6 years and 6 months in prison were requested.
#Important Fourth National Collegiate Criminal Court will issue tomorrow, at 9:00 am, its final decision in the process against the former Minister of Communications, Jorge Luis Cuba Hidalgo and others accused of the crimes of collusion and money laundering in the case “Metro de Lima”. pic.twitter.com/wgowp0a3ja
– National Superior Court (@csnjpeoficial) July 23, 2025
