The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the mayor of Carabayo for allegedly supporting the company in buying the trucks.

anti-corruption prosecutor Marco Carrasco announced this Wednesday that the mayor of Carabaillo, Mark Spinozaand several officials of this district commune are under investigation for alleged illegal purchase of vans worth “nearly 2,670,000 soles”, a process in which a company also involved in the tax investigation would have gained an advantage.

In communication with RPP Noticias, a representative Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office North Limaconfirmed that the mayor of the district was preliminarily detained for 10 days, along with 13 other officials, in a mega-operation conducted from dawn this Wednesday with the support of the Department of Investigation of Highly Complex Crimes (Diviac).

“The facts have been thoroughly investigated,” he said, specifying that among the detainees were members of the selection committee, heads and deputy heads of the mayor’s office of the city of Moscow. carabaillo”.

Prosecutor Carrasco indicated that the district authorities proceeded to purchase the vans “despite the comments of the OSCE (Public Procurement Supervisory Agency)”.

“They continued with the alleged (purpose of) supporting the company,” the prosecutor said, pointing out that several municipal offices and the premises of a private company were listed among the property searched this Wednesday.

The prosecutor pointed out that part of the investigation points to the purchase of an expensive truck purchased for civilian security operations but used for “allegedly private” purposes.

In addition, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office is reportedly investigating alleged irregularities in contracting vehicle maintenance services for the municipality.

They raid the house of the mayor of Carabayo.

This Wednesday, in the carabaillowhich included a search of the mayor’s house Mark Espinoza Ortiz (APP) and about twenty buildings, including the city headquarters.

The protests began at the three-story mayor’s house, located in block 3 of Señor de Caudivilla Avenue, where Diviac agents infiltrated by climbing the walls and breaking down the front door with ropes.

Intervention images received RPP News They show the mayor wearing a blue DIviac jacket and vest with “Arrested” written across the chest. Other photographs show several rooms of the burgomaster’s house taken during the raid.

The operation was led by Prosecutor for Corruption of Officials of Northern Limaas part of an investigation into alleged illegal activities in the purchase of 21 vans.

Via Twitter, the prosecutor’s office said that “the defendants would have directed public procurement to purchase these vehicles, despite the remarks made by the OSCE, which from the very beginning of the process brought obvious benefits to the company.”