The Principality of Andorra prosecutor’s office ordered the freezing of various bank accounts with amounts totaling almost US$3 million, which are linked to former officials of the second government of Allan Garcia and others prosecuted in the corruption scheme deployed by the company Odebrecht.
These are seven accounts in the Private Bank of Andorra (BPA) that were blocked by the Andorran judge Stephanie García, reported the newspaper “El País” of Spain. Four of them belong to former officials of the second APRA government (2007-2011) who, according to the Lava Jato Special Team, would have received bribes or were figureheads of the former head of state, now deceased.
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Former Aprista official Edwin Luyo Barrientos, former chairman of the tender committee for sections 1 and 2 of the Lima metro – which awarded this work to Odebrecht – has an account in his name with US$1.1 million at Credit Andorrà, which was affected by the measure.
In addition, the account of the former official of the bidding committee for line 1 of the Lima metro Santiago Chau Novoa, with US$442,280, and which was registered under the company Ultone Finance Limited, was frozen.
Another US$17,929 from Miguel Atala Herrera, who was vice president of Petro-Perú between 2008 and 2011, was also frozen. This money was in the name of the firm Amarin Investment.
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While the former director of the Ositrán Juan Carlos Zevallos Ugarte – who favored Odebrecht in the South Interoceanic Case – will also not be able to access US$113,737 that were blocked.
The Andorran justice system froze the accounts of other Peruvians prosecuted, such as the lawyers Jorge Cánepa Torre (US$1 million) and Rómulo Peñaranda Castañeda, president of the consulting firm Alpha Consult (US$199,759). In addition, the former director of Citizen Security of Lima and former head of the Municipal Toll Company (Emape) Gabriel Prado Ramos (US$168).
In total, US$2.9 million remain blocked.
It does not bind García
Wilbert Medina, who defended former President Alan García, told El Comercio that none of the frozen accounts in Andorra leads to his former sponsor. He assured that there is nothing new regarding the former president.
“You will not find any Alan García account, neither in Andorra nor in any other part of the world. Those frozen accounts are the same ones for which preventive detention was requested for Atala, Luyo. There is nothing new,” Medina asserted.
