The Minister of the Interior, General PNP (r) Vicente Tiburcio Orbezo, requested the head of the Office of Administration and Finance (OGAF), Ricardo Kanashiro Romeroto present your resigns from the position due to a series of anomalies reported by the Comptroller’s Office in the acquisition processes of a passenger and cargo plane, bulletproof vests and pistols, among others.
Appointed by former Minister Juan Santiváñez on July 17, 2024, Kanashiro complied with proving his resignation and Minister Tiburcio immediately agreed, who also received information about the alleged favoring of certain companies.
In the Ministerial Resolution, Vicente Tiburcio points out that upon receiving Kanashiro’s resignation letter, it is “necessary to accept it”due to the facts described below.
Just last Sunday, La República reported that Minister Vicente Tiburcio was preparing the removal of the head of the OGAF upon learning that he was acting outside the warnings of the Comptroller’s Office.
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Giving the opposite
This inspection entity discovered the alleged orientation of the OGAF in favor of certain companies in the purchasing processes, as in the case of a military aircraft for transporting passengers and cargo for US$65 million.
Although the Comptroller’s Office informed the Mininter that the model offered by the Brazilian company Embraer does not correspond to the characteristics specified by the user, the Police Aviation Directorate, the OGAF again agreed to evaluate said aircraft.
As this newspaper published, to rule out competitors, the OGAF imposes unsupported arguments. For example, in the previous selection process, it rejected the model offered by the Italian company Leonardo, the C-27J Spartan, alleging that the company had not demonstrated that this machine is capable of taking off and landing with 6,700 kilograms on runways located more than 4,200 meters above sea level. However, the Peruvian Air Force (FAP) operates four of those Spartan aircraft without having reported any problems.
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Facts In Evidence
Another form of direction that the Comptroller’s Office identified is the adaptation of the contracting bases to the offer presented by the supplier with whom there is an interest in awarding the investment project. This case was found in the purchase of 3 thousand bulletproof vests for approximately US$1 million 700 thousand.
“During the absolution of consultations, the OGAF modified one of the conditions established in the administrative bases of the international contracting in relation to the manufacturing deadlines for the bulletproof vest, motivating that the proposals of other bidders be discarded during the evaluation of the offers, a situation that would be raising questions about the fair and equal treatment and the transparency of the selection procedure,” highlighted the Comptroller’s Office.
But the OGAF, under the leadership of Ricardo Kanashiro Romero, did not care and went ahead, awarding the contract to the Mexican firm Armor Life Lab, despite the fact that its offer was rejected by the Technical Committee of the Seventh Police Region, which is the user unit that has requested the bulletproof vests.
The OGAF also developed the purchasing process for 31,045 9X19 mm guns. for around US$21.5 million.
The contest rules indicate that the winner – whoever it is – is obliged to set up a maintenance center for 7,000 SIG Sauer pistols with equipment, components and factory certification. But it turns out that SIG Sauer is also participating in the tender. The preference for this brand is more than evident.
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