The human structure that supports the management of Delia Espinoza Valenzuela has changed a lot since he took command of the Public Ministry. At the beginning, in November 2024, its main working arms were the prosecutors Elmer Chirre and Marcial Páucar, but of them the latter was the one who gained a more leading role. Being in charge of the Area of Illicit Enrichment and Constitutional Complaints gives him an undeniable weight that, when it is necessary to open an investigation into a senior official, Espinoza cannot ignore.
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Chirre and Páucar are not friends. In fact, sources consulted by Peru21 They indicated that the fights between the two in the Prosecutor’s Office, before holding their current positions, were almost daily.
Each one wanted things to go their own way despite the provisions issued by the Attorney General. The distribution of work, personnel and even offices were the reasons for the conflicts.
However, despite the differences, their boss brought them together in her team since she was in charge of the Supreme Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office.
Chirre is a prominent anti-corruption prosecutor who obtained the first conviction against the Odebrecht company in 2019. Páucar, meanwhile, is a magistrate specialized in money laundering who was a member of the first Lava Jato team, when the head was Hamilton Castro.
The first is now head of the Office of International Judicial Cooperation, which is in charge of processing the exchange of information with other countries for criminal investigations.
According to sources, he himself asked Delia Espinoza to fill that strategic position.
Zoraida’s shadow
Since joining the Board of Supreme Prosecutors, in 2023, Espinoza has given space in his environment to his friend supreme prosecutor Zoraida Ávalos.
He demonstrated this by integrating Fany Quispe, a person of complete confidence to Ávalos, into his office in the Supreme Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office. And he ratified that bond by retaining her in his circle, already being the nation’s prosecutor.
Quispe’s importance to Espinoza Valenzuela was even more notable when he appointed her coordinator of the Prosecutor’s Office against Organized Crime, replacing prosecutor Jorge Chávez Cotrina, who led that system for almost ten years.
And not only that, Quispe Farfán was assigned the head of the Coordination and Liaison Office of the Illicit Drug Trafficking Prosecutor’s Offices. This prosecutor concentrates transcendental decision-making power.
The hand of Ávalos, former prosecutor of the Nation, was also visible with the appearance of Víctor Cubas. The head of the Public Ministry created the position of spokesperson for him and his power consists of being the only voice authorized to speak publicly for Espinoza’s management.
This list also includes Rosario López Wong, who was in charge of organizing Delia Espinoza’s swearing-in ceremony.
With Ávalos Rivera, López Wong rose from senior prosecutor to provisional supreme prosecutor. That move was repeated with Espinoza, but now she is a supreme anti-corruption prosecutor.
The other supreme anti-corruption prosecutor is José Timarchi, also close to Zoraida Ávalos.
And the latest example of the latter’s influence on Espinoza’s management is Mirko Cano, the super prosecutor.
Cano is the new coordinator of three specialized Prosecutor’s Offices: Anti-Corruption, Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering. His appointment led to the departure of Rafael Vela from the Money Laundering coordination after a decade.
His appointment, according to the sources consulted, occurred due to the obstacles that arose for the appointment of Omar Tello as Anti-Corruption coordinator. Tello was another Ávalos recommended.
The legitimacy of Delia Espinoza is not in question, otherwise the retirement of established prosecutors would have been questioned by public opinion, as happened with her dismissed predecessors Pedro Chávarry and Patricia Benavides.
Espinoza has to row against the current, circumstances will determine whether the team she chose will help her in that laborious three-year task.
Please note
–Peru21 learned that Delia Espinoza consults her decisions with two other prosecutors: Raquel Cárdenas, coordinator of the Human Rights Prosecutor’s Office, and Aurora Castillo, coordinator of the Cybercrime Prosecutor’s Office.
-The general secretary of the Public Ministry, Ana María Velarde, is another part of Zoraida Ávalos in Espinoza’s management.
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