Dina Boluarte’s Association Director Pocketed Millions: Scandal Uncovered by El Comercio

2024-04-01 07:05:00

A former director of the Apurimac Departmental Club, The association that Dina Boluarte chaired between 2017 and 2021, managed to pocket more than S/5.5 million from the public treasury through twelve contracts signed with entities of the Executive, according to an investigation published this Sunday by El Comercio.

This is William Zegarra Pantigoso, who appears in a Facebook photograph along with the head of state. According to the report, the relative managed the firm Welev Servicios Generales SRL, dedicated to the cleaning service and sale of specialized products, and where his family members appear as shareholders.

The company has not contracted with the State since 2017; However, since Boluarte took over as vice president and Minister of Development, and later as governor, she was frequently benefited. In 2022 alone, Welev obtained six contracts for S/3,271,920. Between 2023 and this year, it won six other public tenders for S/2,265,546 in total, according to official reports.

In June 2023, the National Service of Natural Areas Protected by the State (Sinanpe) awarded Welev the award for the cleaning service of its headquarters, for which S/329,994 was allocated. A month later, she was hired in the Special Legacy Project, assigned to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM), for S / 339,984.

President Dina Boluarte lives in a political crisis due to the Rolex scandal. (Flickr Presidency)

On December 28, 2023, the firm won a contract in the Mivivienda Fund for S/345,600. In January 2024, it obtained three contracts with the Qali Warma program and the Supervisory Body for Investment in Public Transport Infrastructure (Ositrán), attached to the PCM, for S/1’249,968.

According to the report, Welev won three of the twelve contracts in consortium with Ankhrian Representaciones SAC, established in 2013 by Aníbal Zegarra, brother of the former director. This last company, dedicated to cleaning services and urban transportation, began to win state contracts in 2022, according to records from the National Superintendence of Customs and Tax Administration (Sunat).

In March of that year, it won a tender in the Irrigation Subsector Program (PSI), of the Ministry of Agrarian Development, for S/282,000. Two months later, he was awarded another contract in Qali Warma, for S / 297,600. In both cases he won in a consortium with Welev, according to the report.

At the end of January, it obtained another contract in Qali Warma, for S/613,968, also in consortium with Welev, for the cleaning, maintenance and fumigation service of the offices of the headquarters of the aforementioned programs. In 2023, in addition, Aníbal Zegarra’s firm, individually, obtained a direct contract in the PSI for S/119,725.

The president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, in an archive photograph. EFE/ Paolo Aguilar

None of those involved were located at their homes nor did they respond to the newspaper when contacted. In a previous report, the former club director denied that he had received improper support in his contracts, although he acknowledged a closeness with the president.

“[Boluarte] He went to my marriage. She has also come to our house for my daughter’s baptism. […] When she was president of the club, she threw a party to raise funds for her campaign. [a la alcaldía de Surquillo, en 2018]. There we went [a apoyarla]”he said then.

For its part, the press area of ​​the Government Palace rejected that Boluarte had intervened in the tenders: “Madame President […] “He did not have powers nor did he participate in any hiring process,” he told the newspaper.

The obtaining of these contracts has been made public in the midst of an investigation once morest the ruler for alleged illicit enrichment, a case for which her house was searched over the weekend by a team of prosecutors and agents of the National Police (PNP).

The operation was carried out for the purpose of registering and seizing luxury watches, including Rolex, that Boluarte used in different public activities without declaring them as part of his assets.

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