he still President of the Council of Ministers, Hector Valeris investigated by the Public Ministry in Ucayali for culpable homicide, a crime that -according to the Criminal Code- is punishable by four years in prison.
As reported Fourth poweralso a congressman from Democratic Peru, in February 2017, Valer became the administrator of a slaughterhouse of the Provincial Municipality of Coronel Portillo, in Pucallpa, Ucayali region.
However, the administration decided to make changes to the structures of the premises, a fact that caused the merchant Áster Díaz to be attacked by a cattle on July 19, 2017, which caused his death days later.
“Mr. Héctor Valer has completely dismantled the corral where the wholesalers came and put their products to provide greater security (…) he disarmed the corral and made the merchants insecure”, commented Yajaira Díaz, daughter of the deceased merchant.
Doubts about the Héctor Valer consortium
Héctor Valer was a representative of the Coincar Consortium in Ucayali. According to the Sunday, the award of the municipal slaughterhouse to Coincar was observed by the Comptroller’s Office, for which the prosecution is investigating Héctor Valer and Antonio Marino, the former mayor of Coronel Portillo.
“Of all this constitution there is no good money that has been contributed to this consortium. Consequently, it has been simply armed to harm the State and the workers.”, alleged Jack Barbarán, lawyer for the slaughterhouse workers of the municipality of Coronel Portillo.
In addition, the prosecution is investigating Héctor Valer and Antonio Marino for the alleged crime of environmental pollution, since they were accused of damaging the ecosystem with the wastewater generated by the slaughterhouse.
“It was definitely not a good act that the municipal management did. That delivery to Valer’s company was a failure. He even wanted to charge the State for damages that we had supposedly done against his company, which was absurd.”, Antonio Marino told Cuarto Poder.
Héctor Valer owes about 200,000 soles to slaughterhouse workers in Pucallpa
Worker of the slaughterhouse of the Municipality of Coronel Portillo, Valer is accused of being in debt of about 203 thousand soles due to lack of payments.
The lawyer for the workers of the Coronel Portillo slaughterhouse indicated that there is a sentence from July 13, 2018 that requires Coincar, a consortium of the still prime minister, to pay 203,000 soles “in favor of the 254 workers” who were harmed by not receiving their salary during Valer Pinto’s administration; however, to date they have not been cancelled.
