The former manager of Petroperú surrenders to the Prosecutor’s Office

The former general manager of the Petroperú company, Hugo Chávez Arévalo, turned himself in this Monday to the Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office after a preliminary arrest warrant against him in the framework of an investigation against him for a corruption case.

“Nothing, everything is false. This is a political issue and I have come to turn myself in voluntarily,” he told journalists as he entered the building escorted by members of the Peruvian Police, according to the RPP network.

On November 25, a preliminary arrest warrant was issued for a period of ten days against Chávez Arévalo after it became known on Monday the 21st that he was going to travel without a return ticket to Bolivia, for which reason Judge Ingrid Estacio Soria issued that court order.

Chávez Arévalo is implicated in a case that investigates the alleged irregularities in a tender of US$74 million awarded to the company Heaven Petroleum Operators (HPO) after meeting its manager, Samir Abudayeh, with the Peruvian president Pedro Castillo.

The television program Panorama, of the Peruvian television channel Panamericana, reported on Castillo’s meetings with Abudayeh and Chávez at the presidential palace and on the subsequent bidding for the purchase of biodiesel that benefited Abudayeh four days later. The meetings were confirmed thanks to the information available on the Government’s transparency portal.

With information from La Gaceta

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