The congresswoman from Free Peru for San Martín, Lucinda Vásquez Vela, has been identified by a witness in reserve as the person who provided a group of professors from that department a copy of the proof to get the appointment of teachers, before the day of the evaluation, last Saturday, November 13. The testimony also involves the daughter of the Minister of Education, Inés Gallardo Calixto, according to the report by journalist Daniel Yovera, from Epicentro TV.
The facts were reported to the San Martín Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office one day before the evaluation, that is, on Friday, November 12. That day the protected witness sought out the anti-corruption prosecutor of San Martín José Luis Villalta Arriaga and He told her that the exam that the teachers would give the next day was riddled with irregularities, because it had been leaked.
In his statement, the witness locates the first alleged contact with the congresswoman from Free Peru between November 8 and 9, when she received a phone call in which she was told that the congresswoman Lucinda vasquez “I had asked for the exams.”
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“Between November 8 or 9, 2021 (the witness) received a telephone call in which they indicated that the Congresswoman of the Republic Lucinda Vásquez Vela had requested the knowledge exams for the appointment of the teachers hired to the daughter of the Minister of Education (understand the current Minister Carlos Alfonso Gallardo Gómez), who is a close friend of the aforementioned congresswoman ”, says page 5 of the tax provision. The witness refers to Inés Gallardo Calixto, who frequently attends to the Minedu.
According to the same tax provision, on Wednesday, November 10, Congresswoman Lucinda Vásquez would have agreed to meet with professors Héctor Llamacpompac Rabelo, María del Carmen Flores Ruiz, Olga Carmela Chávez Muñoz and María Angelina Tapia Leyva in the exteriors of the Government Palace, with the purpose of presumably meeting with President Pedro Castillo.
Add that Vásquez Vela, with the exams in his hands, traveled to Tarapoto on the afternoon of November 11, 2021 in the company of teachers María del Carmen Flores Ruiz, Olga Carmela Chávez Muñoz and María Angelina Tapia Leyva.
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Lucinda Vásquez told Epicentro TV that she traveled to Tarapoto for activities other than the evaluation. He also denied knowing Inés Gallardo, the daughter of Minister Carlos Gallardo.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education rejected “this disinformation campaign.” It’s a statement indicates that the minister does not know Congresswoman Vásquez and that he never met with her. He regrets that “based on assumptions” they seek to discredit the institution.
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They formed groups of ten to buy the exam
According to the testimony, in Tarapoto, congresswoman Lucinda Vásquez Vela and the aforementioned teachers traveled to Juanjuí, in a white truck owned by businessman Luis Panduro, to deliver the exams to their teacher friends.
“The latter indicated to the other professors that the one who sold the test in Tarapoto was Professor Jorge Fasanando Pezo and the Minsa doctor Luis Zafra Carrera, who by order of the congresswoman began selling the test on November 13, same day of the exam ”, He says.
The test circulated through thousands of telephones throughout the country since the first hours of that day for the amount of S / 3,000. The teachers formed groups of ten in order to reach the requested amount.