The Major General EP Oswaldo Calle Talledo was appointed as Chief of Staff of the Armythe number two position of the military institute, despite the fact that it faces tax investigations for alleged acts of corruption, reported retired Brigadier General Víctor Canales Rosas in an interview with La República.
According to the internal rules of the Army, the chief of the General Staff also assumes the presidency of the board of directors of the state company Army Weapons and Ammunition Factory (FAME), which has recently been in charge of million-dollar contracts for the purchase of military equipment.
According to him General Victor Canaleswhen General Oswaldo Calle Talledo was in charge of the Army Health Command (COSALE), during the COVID-19 pandemic, he made alleged fraudulent contracts, for which the prosecutor’s office intervened in his offices.
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The case was initiated by a report from General Manuel Paz Ramos.
However, at the end of last year the Army assigned General Oswaldo Calle Talledo to the position of Chief of Staff and General Manuel Paz retired “due to personnel renewal.”
“General Oswaldo Calle Talledo has ongoing tax proceedings. “It seems to me that when he served as head of the Health Command in the middle of the (coronavirus) pandemic, he even had an intervention from the Prosecutor’s Office, because I worked a few meters away (from his office) and I could see when they came in for hiring issues,” General Víctor Canales told La República.
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“Perhaps more knowledgeable about this issue are the people who have worked with him. I can cite General Manuel Paz Ramos, my classmate, who was unjustly retired, being a hero of the Cenepa war and a Chavín de Huántar commando,” he stated.
General Canales maintained that instead of Oswaldo Calle Talledo, the division general should have been appointed as chief of staff. Ricardo Bustamante Zúñiga, number one in the 1993 classfor being a highly qualified officer for the position.
“Last year, Major General Ricardo Bustamante Zúñiga, the first place in the same promotion, also retired. He should be the Chief of General Staff of the Army. But they retire being a brilliant officer, an officer with an impeccable track record, with leadership, highly trained,” he told this medium.
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“Montesinist” practices
For Brigadier General Víctor Canales Rosas, who on December 20 He attracted attention for a speech criticizing the government and the Armythese episodes of qualified officers who are retired despite their merits, and the promotion and appointment of questioned officers, recall the time when the former Fujimori presidential advisor Vladimiro Montesinos controlled the Armed Forces.
“There is a similarity, definitely there is. (…) (Montesinist practices) based on corruption. Logically, it is corruption. Corruption is not only: ‘I give you money and you do me a favor.’ Corruption is also: ‘I promote you even though you should not promote,’” he expressed.
“There is favoritism, false loyalty, false esprit de corps. (But) not from the entire Army, but from a small group who currently have important positions, relevant military ranks, and who use these tools. Logically, they are outside the law to achieve their very personal objectives. Suddenly, we even set up certain criminal networks,” agreed General Víctor Canales.
