According to Punto Final, Produce hired the production minister’s nephew for 42,000 soles.

Edwin Chavez Prado, Coordinator of the Ministry of Production in Ica, is the nephew of Minister Jorge Luis Prado Palomino. He has been on the job since February and has earned up to 42,000 soles despite hiring barriers due to family ties, the program showed this Sunday. Final point.

The young man was hired by the Produce Headquarters of Business Development and very often participated in meetings via Zoom. Chávez Prado signed two executive orders that allowed him to receive sol 21,000 on both occasions, and he remains associated with the ministry until August of this year.

In a report on these violations in Produces Emphasis is placed on Law No. 31299, where sections 1 and 81 establish that officers, directors and Public servants are prohibited from appointing, hiring or inducing others in their institution, their relatives up to the fourth degree of kinship and the second degree of kinship.

end point He also learned that Edwin Chavez had no previous experience in the state. His National Registry of Public Suppliers processed it and it was issued to him on February 16, the same day he received his first service order in Produce worth SGD 21,000.

Chavez declined to make any statements about the report, with the industry minister citing health concerns to not respond to these violations. However, he made it clear that he was unaware of his nephew’s hiring.

The same report revealed that Minister Jorge Luis Prado was indeed involved in official activities with his nephew in the Ica region.

Make official recruitment promotion for son-in-law and nephew

This is not the first time such incidents have occurred. In April last year, it was reported that the director general of the Artisanal Fisheries Department of the Ministry of Production (Production), Oscar Diaz Mendoza, offered to hire people connected to his family environment for positions under his leadership, as outlined in the program. end point.

The report indicates that the people proposed are his son-in-law and nephew, which would be an alleged case of nepotism.

His brother-in-law, Damian Alejandro Llanos Vergara (35), with computer and systems skills, was twice hired to work on registering and updating the database of the Artisanal Fisheries Management System, corresponding to the address headed by Oscar Diaz. .

Díaz Mendoza offered to hire his nephew Jesús Herrera González to coordinate with the Communications and Product Image Authority to disseminate information about the activities of the Artisanal Fisheries Authority.