Prosecutor José Domingo Pérez required the Judiciary to temporarily suspend the collection of tolls in the Yellow Line road project, which was in charge of the OAS company and which was favored in 2013 by the management of the former mayor of Lima Susana Villaran.
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Likewise, it required that the Municipal Company for the Support of Strategic Projects SA be the one to assume the collection function at the installed checkpoints.
According to Pérez, who is a member of the Lava Jato special team, under Villarán’s mandate, the Municipality of Lima and Lamsac (company that managed OAS) signed addendum 1 with the Brazilian company that allowed the contract term to be extended from 30 to 40 years.
According to the investigation, the then mayor agreed to change the agreement in order to receive financing from the construction company and thus carry out a political campaign to prevent its revocation.
The change in the contract modified the investment amount of the project, which went from costing US$480 million to US$561 million, since new works would be carried out for more than US$81 million.
This also implied that the toll collection was varied and Lamsac, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, readjusted the price. According to his calculations, considering the increase in investment, he had stopped receiving more than US$142 million between 2009 and 2013, so he expected to collect that amount with the new toll rate.
In 2016, the French company Vinci Highways bought Lamsac, changed its name to Lima Expresa, and assumed the legal liabilities that the work faced.
Currently, the toll charge amounts to S/6.60 for traveling on roads divided into two sections. Section 1 includes Vía de Evitamiento, Monterrico, Separadora Industrial, Santa Anita, Ramiro Prialé; and section 2 covers the Estadio Toll, Army Toll, and Huánuco Toll.
Judge Jorge Chávez Tamariz scheduled the hearing for November 21 in which he will evaluate the request of prosecutor Pérez.
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