The Public ministry found a deposit of S / 100,000 in an account of the Credit Bank of Peru in the name of Alcides Villafuerte Vizcarraformer manager of Works of Provías decentralized, who voluntarily surrendered to justice on Thursday March 31 in Cuscoaccording to a report issued by Canal N last Tuesday.
Alcides Villafuerte is one of the former officials accused by businesswoman and aspiring effective collaborator, Karelim López, of having benefited the consortium Tarata III Bridge in a tender of more than S/232 million for the construction of a road work on the Huallaga river, in the San Martín region.
According to the fiscal hypothesis, Villafuerte Vizcarra was in charge of the management of Provías and who, supposedly, ordered to extend the date for submitting proposals in order to favor the aforementioned consortium.
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Also, according to the testimony of an effective collaborator of the Public ministryidentified with code CE-01-5D-2FPCEDCF-2022, the owners of the consortium Tarata III Bridge they would have offered changes in that irregular procedure for the payment of a bribe of 0.5% of the total amount of the work. This, equivalent to a bribe of more than S / 1 million.
It is worth mentioning that, at the time of the raid on the home of Alcides Villafuerte VizcarraheThe Prosecutor’s Office found a voucher from December 21, 2021 for a deposit of S / 100,000amount that was withdrawn through a bank transfer on the same day.
In this sense, according to the research, Villafuerte would have no way of justifying said amount of money in his bank account, because at that time no income filed. Furthermore, it was known that at the time of announcing the irregular tender in Províasthe former official asked the consortium for three months of unpaid leave.
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Alcides Villafuerte is one of the five investigated, along with former Secretary General of the Government Palace, Bruno Pachecoand the nephews of the President of the Republic, Gian Marco Castillo Gomez and Fray Vasquez Castillofor whom the Judiciary ordered 36 months of preventive detention, as well as for others involved in the investigation of the Tarata III Bridge case.
Villafuerte, for which a reward of S / 30,000 was offered, He turned himself in to the Cusco authorities after the Prosecutor’s Office requested a restricted appearance measure against him.
