The Supervisory Agency for State Procurement (OSCE) indicated that it has provided all the necessary facilities to the Prosecutor’s Office in the diligence it carried out in its offices in Jesús María. This as a result of the dissemination of a journalistic report in which an alleged cyber espionage in favor of Chinese construction companies is denounced.
Through a statement, the entity reported that the investigation was carried out by the Sixth Investigation Office of the Second Provincial Criminal Corporate Prosecutor’s Office Specialized in Corruption Crimes and information was collected from the files of the Electronic State Procurement System (SEACE).
“All the facilities were provided to the deputy prosecutor of the Sixth Investigation Office of the Second Provincial Corporate Criminal Prosecutor’s Office Specialized in Corruption Crimes of Lima Officials, Renzo Huamán Garayarin the diligence carried out at the OSCE facilities for the verification, verification and collection of information and files of the SEACE”, reads the statement.
In this sense, the agency highlighted that SEACE has computer security control measures to mitigate the risk of information being violated and to prevent unauthorized external access. This, he said, thanks to measures of encryption and obfuscation of confidential data and execution of audits.
Also, the OSCE reiterated its commitment to the fight against corruption and rejected any act that goes against the law.
After completing the proceedings in the offices of this entity, the prosecutor Renzo Huamán indicated that they were in charge of collecting information to clarify the facts.
“The investigation has been carried out calmly, a calm diligence, the information has been collected and everything is reserved and under the clarification of the fact (…) Everything with caution and always with due reserve”, he declared for the press.
journalistic complaint
According to Punto Final’s complaint, a spy entered the platform managed by the OSCE to obtain information on proposals submitted in the tenders and deliver them to Chinese construction companies, who later won millionaire public contracts.
The Latina journalistic program detailed that a 23-year-old and his accomplices violated the security system of the SEACE OSCE platform to sell information to dozens of companies that won million-dollar bids from their competitors.
He indicated that, on April 4, the subject went to the Anticorruption Attorney to tell how these illicit operations work.
