They denounce that minister Betssy Chávez benefited relatives with charges | POLITICS

The Minister of Culture, Betssy Chávezgave jobs in the State to two relatives of Abel Sotelo Villa, a merchant with whom she is romantically linked, denounced this Sunday 13 “Fourth power”.

Abel Sotelo’s father, Antonio Sotelo Calderón, was appointed representative of the Ministry of Labor before the National Council of Senati on January 12 by Betssy Chávez herself, when she was the head of the aforementioned portfolio.

According to the Sunday reference, Antonio Sotelo met Chávez in the last electoral campaign, when he supported Peru Libre as secretary of the representatives.

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In addition, it records at least three visits to Chávez’s office when she was Minister of Labor, carried out on November 8 and 24, and December 13.

After his position in the Ministry of Labor, Antonio Sotelo moved to Cofopri Tacna, an entity attached to the Ministry of Housing.

The then national head of Cofopri, Jorge Quevedo, assured “Fourth Power” that the request to hire Sotelo came from the highest spheres of power.

According to Quevedo, the investigated Salatiel Marrufoformer adviser to former Minister Geiner Alvarado, pressed for Antonio Sotelo to be hired.

As head of Cofopri Tacna, Sotelo received a visit from Chávez, despite the fact that he already had accusations of colluding with a faction of leaders that allegedly charges quotas to traffic in the formalization of land, revealed “Fourth Power.”

Sotelo recognized the aforementioned Sunday that he knows Minister Chavez, but added that he has earned his public position “by hand.”

According to the news program, the prosecution opened an investigation once morest Sotelo for the alleged crime of bribery.

Other favored relative

Law graduate Marco Antonio Sotelo, brother of Abel Sotelo, was hired as an assistant to Chávez’s congressional office in October 2021.

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The transparency section of Congress records that Marco Antonio Sotelo worked in that office until last March.

Until the closing of this edition, Minister Chávez did not pronounce herself on the complaint once morest her.