This proposal was already coming. Apart from the fact that the Executive – in conjunction with Congress – has extended Reinfo for up to one year, which indirectly favors illegal miners, because the latter use the papers in that database to transport and market dirty gold. , illegal miners would be very close to having their own bank, where they could obtain money loans with special rates for their sector.
This is because this initiative was first made known by the Minister of Energy and Mines, Jorge Luis Montero, in a meeting they held on December 13, as revealed by Perú21.
The Magisterial Bloc bench, made up of congressmen from the union of the coup plotter Pedro Castillo, Fenatep, has presented a generous bill to reactivate the deactivated Banco Minero, which operated until 1991, and which a year later entered into a liquidation process that ended in 2008.
The initiative of the new Banco Minero BM was presented last Thursday, the 9th of this month.
Peru21 revealed that on December 13, Minister Montero, after holding a meeting with the informal miners of Confemin – led by its president Máximo Franco, a member of Renovación Popular -, promised to create a mining bank.
Once the meeting was concluded, the Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem) released a statement in which it announced that it will promote the creation of a Mining Fund for Small Mining and Artisanal Mining, which translated into good Christian language is a bank for informal miners.
Montero told them in that meeting – according to the statement – that miners who wish to participate in the benefits of this fund will be able to register and commit to contributing an annual tax of 0.5% that could amount to about 50 million dollars a year.
With this bill, everything indicates that if it passes to the Plenary and is approved, the Executive will support this proposal.
This would be a new victory for the informal miners because now, after getting the National Mining Society to withdraw from the work table in the Energy Commission, they are participating in the preparation of the new ASM law, in which they could receive that they obtain mining concessions expressly and that they finance their environmental studies.
This was revealed by Perú21 last week.
ILLEGAL MINING IN WALL WITH INFORMAL MINING
The former vice minister of the Interior, Ricardo Valdés, has pointed out to Peru21 that illegal miners use the Reinfo papers, to which informal miners belong, which are provided to them by those who have that valid document, to transport explosives and the millionaire dirty gold to market it. .
According to the former Minister of the Interior, Carlos Basombrío, in a communication with this medium, he has indicated that illegal mining moves 6 billion dollars a year, and that this figure is four times greater than what drug trafficking sells.
That’s not all. The president of the Association of Artisanal Miners of Pataz, Ama-Pataz, José Torrealva, told this media that in his district located in La Libertad, per day, an informal miner can fill a gold dump truck whose load is valued between 15 thousand at 20 thousand dollars. And, furthermore, an informal miner can sell between one and four loads a month.
That is, in Pataz, an informal miner from his guild, made up of 1,500 men, can obtain profits of more than 80 thousand dollars per month. Round business.
This bill, without a doubt, will be prioritized in the Energy and Mines Commission because its president is Paul Gutiérrez, from the Magisterial Bloc, remembered for having stood up for Movadef after being declared proscribed by the Judiciary.
That, not to mention the links between Fenatep and Movadef, which we have repeatedly made known in this newspaper.
Without a doubt, this would be the announced chronicle of the creation of the mining bank for the informal sector.
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