The houses of two former regional governors of Piura, Javier Atkins (2011-2014) yes Reynaldo Hilbck (2015 and 2018), were searched this Wednesday at dawn by members of the special team of prosecutors of the Lava Jato casea procedure in which the police’s High Complexity Crimes Investigation Division (Diviac) also participated.

Atkins there Hilbck are under investigation for collusion and incompatible negotiation for the alleged favor of the Brazilian construction company Camargo y Correa in the award of the special hydroelectric project Alto Piura (Peep)the most important work in the region, valued at 479 million 663 thousand 437 soles.

Prosecutor Luis Alberto Ordóñez, from the seventh office of the special national team specializing in crimes of corruption of officials, was in charge of the procedure, which seized computer equipment and documents that will be used to complete the evidence in the investigation. , extended until October 2023 by court decision. “Everything is reserved. The information is delicate, we are still in the development of operations,” he told the regional station. Cutivalu.

According to a report by public eyethe preparatory investigation against Atkins promoted by the prosecution dates back to his administration, when term extensions and presumed irregular arbitral awards were granted in favor of Camargo Correa, contractor of the first component of Alto Piura.

In this case, the judiciary ordered the seizure of assets for S/ 5 million Hilbck, who chaired the board of said project during the Atkins administration, and who would be his immediate successor. However, he indicated that the board had only political participation, but not the ability to execute or manage state resources.

None of the ex-governors has yet commented on this latest procedure.

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In 2019, Atkins received a four-year suspended prison sentence for the misdemeanor of inconsistent trading for the benefit of his nephew, a security company owner, in 2013 and 2014, whom he hired, without a tender, to provide services at Sullana Hospital, a dependency of the regional government of Piura. This first instance decision has been appealed.

According public eye, Hilbck ―who was a candidate and lost in the second round of the last election― adds another 18 tax investigations for the alleged offenses of embezzlement, collusion, aggravated fraudulent embezzlement, abuse of power, abuse of authority, disobedience to the authority, lying, crimes against public administration, among others. Nine of those cases are listed as either archived or on hold.

Regarding the most ongoing proceedings, which correspond to three cases this year, he told the investigative media that he was waiting for the call from the prosecution to give his defenses. “I’m in politics and I have a lot of these cases, when there’s a complaint it’s important to be responsible and to report, but that doesn’t mean we’re corrupt,” he said .

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