The provincial mayor of Arequipa, Victor Hugo Riveraapologized because the municipality hired a show with strippers to commemorate the International Women’s Day.

Thousands of Peruvian women are heads of households.
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As has been made public, the now former deputy director of the human resources sector of the provincial municipality of Arequipa, Virginia Bustos Valdivia, was the original hire for the show. For this, the mayor said she was removed from office. She worked in this commune since the previous management.

The mayor also explained that the municipality will not pay the strippers for the show and clarified that no deposit had been paid. According to him, the service would have cost S/2,000.

“I was surprised to see strippers at the event,” he said.

Victor Hugo Rivera He also assured that they would investigate all the workers who would have been at the origin of this hiring.

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“In the specifications, only the term ‘artistic spectacle’ appeared, but not that they were going to hire dancers of this type. As soon as this “deplorable” act started, I got up from my chair and went to my desk. I immediately informed City Manager José Augusto Arce to end this part of the ceremony for the Women’s dayhe told El Búho.

This is not the first time that municipalities have sought to entertain with shows of strippers on memorial days. In 2022, the mayor of the Paucarpata district did the same as part of a tribute for Mother’s Day.

Precisely during Wednesday March 8, International Women’s Daya hearing was held during which the public prosecutor asked the mayor of Arequipa to extend the duration of the investigation, Victor Hugo Riverafor the alleged commission of money laundering.

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The tax investigation against the current provincial mayor of Arequipa began on March 21, 2018, following the report by the citizen Juan Carlos Belzu of an inconsistency in the curriculum vitae that the official presented to the National Electoral Jury (JNE), in the framework of the regional and municipal elections of this year -there. .

The document he presented said he owned two luxury cars and two buildings, but the weird thing was that he didn’t have enough money to buy these goods.

According to the tax file, the mayor purchased a Ford Ranger van, registration V9R-788, which cost S/131,168, and a Jeep Cherokee car, registration V8A-389, valued at S/122,000. He also acquired a apartment in El Ensueño urbanization and land in Sachaca, which cost 134,210 S/.

During the additional investigation time, the Public Ministry seeks to find a report indicating the income of Víctor Hugo Rivera during the period in which he worked as a professor at the university National University of San Agustin and the Catholic University of Santa Maria.

In addition, they intend to find an external audit document carried out by the international clubs on the management of Victor Hugo Rivera during the years 2015 and 2017.

The provincial mayor of Arequipa He denied committing the crime and said the reasons he is being investigated are political. He said he will cooperate with the prosecution.

“What we have done is open all our accounts and give them the information corresponding to all the facts found,” he said.

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