Martín Vizcarra received money in briefcases at the Government Palace, according to a prosecution witness | The Untouchables of Corruption | Eficcop | Provías Decentralized | Carlos Revilla Loayza | POLICY

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According to the investigation by the Team of Prosecutors against Power Corruption (Eficcop) for the Untouchables of Corruption Case, Carlos Revilla Loayza would have given cash, the product of bribes, to Martín Vizcarra in the Government Palace when he was president of the Republic.

The first delivery took place in 2018, according to the confidential witness statement TP-03-2023. This is part of the investigation of the case, which is investigating former officials of Provías Descentralizado (PVD) of the Vizcarra government, including Revilla.

“Mr. Carlos Revilla, at that time executive director of Provías Descentralizado, has entered the Government Palace carrying sports briefcases (two opportunities) and a tube to store plans (one opportunity) to the Government Palace. Entry was through the Peru gate and there should be no registration. All of that was the order of then-president Martín Vizcarra,” said the witness in reserve 03-2023 on September 14, 2023.

The same witness points out that, on the first occasion, Karem Roca, who worked in the Presidential Office when Vizcarra was president, observed that Revilla was carrying with him a black briefcase, from the sports brand Adidas, which contained “packages inside.”

“After 20 or 30 minutes of meeting with Martín Vizcarra, [Revilla] he left his office, […] Karem Roca immediately proceeds to enter the Presidential Office and “arrange” the personal items of the then head of state.

Roca took advantage of the fact that Vizcarra went to the toilets to open the briefcase that Carlos Revilla had left. He “he lifted the briefcase, which had an irregular weight, and out of curiosity he managed to open it, observing that it contained a large amount inside.” [de] wads of national banknotes of various denominations.”

On that occasion, Roca entered the office alone and Vizcarra did not observe her.

Between September and October 2019, the second delivery of money from Revilla to Vizcarra was made, according to the reserved witness 03-2023.

Another time, the then executive director of Provías Descentralizado entered the Government Palace without being registered, carrying with him a black backpack-type briefcase. “As was his custom, Martín Vizcarra asked that no record of said entry be left and that the cameras in the Government Palace be turned off. After said meeting, which lasted approximately half an hour, Carlos Revilla left.” Then, Karem Roca and the Navy aide-de-camp, “named Orlando Echevarría, and the cleaning worker entered the Presidential Office to carry out the cleaning work.”

Under these circumstances, Roca would have observed that the then president’s desk drawer “was poorly closed.” Then, when trying to close it, he “was able to visualize the existence of bundles of money in dollars and also bundles of S / 200 that were inside. He stressed that these bundles managed to cover the entire desk drawer. Roca tried to close it, but then Vizcarra “surprises her and says: ‘Hey, what are you doing there? What have you seen?”, to which she replied nothing and left the place.

The third delivery of money to the Government Palace took place between September and October 2019. Revilla visited Vizcarra again in his office, but this time he did not bring suitcases, but rather a tube of plans.

After the meeting between Revilla and Vizcarra, Karem Roca entered the office and “noticed that the tube for storing plans was next to his desk.” The witness reported that, as Vizcarra had entered the toilets, Roca picked him up and felt very heavy. When he examined it, he “observed that it also contained a large number of bundles of national banknotes of various denominations, proceeding to leave it in its place.”

The same testimony indicates that Vizcarra’s wife, Maribel Díaz, was in charge of managing the alleged bribes that the then president received.

According to the prosecution, this money that the former president would have received would correspond to bribes from bidders to be awarded three projects.

One is the improvement and recovery of the local road in a sector of the Samegua district, located in the province of Mariscal Nieto, in Moquegua. This work was awarded for more than 63 million soles.

The second is a road conservation project for a corridor in the Caraybamba district, located in Aymaraes, Apurímac, known as Tintay, whose tender was above S/156 million.

The project to create the Pampas interregional vehicular bridge in different districts of Ayacucho and Apurímac, valued at more than S/54 million, is also under investigation.

Alcides Villafuerte, former Provías Decentralized Works Manager, was the one who requested the money from the businessmen. According to effective collaborator 08-2023, Luis Pasapera and other bidders who won bids would have given him S/3 million in exchange for privileged information to illicitly win contracts.

Carlos Revilla and Alcides Villafuerte were arrested today as part of the operation of the Los Intocables of Corruption Case.

Raid on the property of Carlos Revilla, former head of Provías Descentralizado. Search of the property of Carlos Revilla, former head of Provías Descentralizado.