The regional governor of Fist, Agustín Luque ChaiñaHe was arrested on the afternoon of last Saturday, October 30, and taken to the Department of Investigation of Crimes against the Public Administration. According to the first reports, the authority He would lead a family criminal organization dedicated to the alleged crime of aggravated collusion.
The anti-corruption prosecutor William Otazú Pinto, who directs the investigation, told the media that the preliminary detention is for a period of seven days. Luque’s intervention was carried out averaging 3:00 pm at the southern exit of Puno.
Deputy Prosecutor Carlos Jáuregui and police officers from the Anti-Corruption Directorate also participate in the operation that takes place in different parts of the region.
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Another of the detainees is Jhon Martínez Molina, legal advisor to the Regional Government of Puno. Other trusted officials of Agustín Luque have also been intervened and in the next few hours they will be taken to the police station.
It was known that the investigation is based on the case revealed by La República, in its printed edition of October 25, that the tender for the new Manuel Núñez Butrón hospital in Puno, awarded for 329 million 373 thousand 420 soles to a Chinese consortium, was chaired by Narda Castillo Castillo, cousin of the wife of the governor of Puno.
This is the second regional governor in the south to be arrested in recent days. The head of the Regional Government of Arequipa, Elmer Cáceres Llica, was intervened on October 22, for allegedly leading the criminal organization Los Hijos del Cóndor, through which he gave gifts to officials and regional authorities in exchange for favoring him in his decisions and legislative proposals, among other acts.
