As part of an operation, businessman Zamir Villaverde was preliminarily detained for 15 days in his home in La Molina, at the request of the Ministry Audience investigating the irregular award of Puente Tarata III. This also includes the nephews of the President of the Republic, as well as the former Secretary General of the Government Palace, Bruno Pacheco, who have so far not been captured.
Villaverde García is known to own the security company Vigarza, where Bruno Pacheco also worked, however, not much is known about his past, only that he purged prison and, above all, it is unknown how he became a trusted man of President Pedro Castillo.
The businessman was a member of the Peruvian Air Force (FAP), but was expelled from the institution when it was discovered that he had committed criminal acts with other non-commissioned officers during his franc days. He was even demoted at an official ceremony in 1999.
In February 2007, he participated in a gunshot assault of a pizzeria in the Miraflores district with a gang of criminals. In the same scene, he was captured by the police in a pursuit and was shot and wounded. In 2009, he was sentenced by justice to 10 years in prison for aggravated robbery. However, he was only imprisoned for two years in Castro Castro Prison.
In 2013, Villaverde reoffended crimes and was sentenced to 4 years in prison for collusion and falsification of documents, but in 2015 he was already free. Already in 2016, he was denounced by his ex-partner at the La Molina police station for physical and psychological violence.
However, the entrepreneur has no legal record and is considered as a security expert with the company Vigarza. He has been presented at protocol acts of senior commanders of the Peruvian National Police (PNP) because of his link with President Pedro Castillo. In addition, he directs the security of Videna and the national team through a contract with the Peruvian Football Federation (FPF).
Villaverde would be the organizer of the alleged mafia in the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC), according to the statements of the aspiring effective collaborator, Karelim López.
Regarding the works of the MTC, the lobbyist said that a percentage of the budget was offered. “(It was) 5% when they were greater than 30 million (suns). And in which there were less than 30 million, there was 10%.” Villaverde was responsible for distributing the money to 'Los niños' of Acción Popular.
The businessman had been consulted by El Comercio about these statements: he denied that he knew the legislators of the lampa party, as well as any other congressman.
APPROACH WITH PEDRO CASTILL
Villaverde met Pedro Castillo in the last campaign for the 2021 presidential elections thanks to the friendship he had with Fray Vasquez Castillo, nephew of the head of state and who was in charge of a food business called Kayako, in Callao, which was attended by criminals.
A Callao policeman, who preferred anonymity, told the portal piensa.pe last February what that establishment meant in the constitutional province: “Kayako became a popular place, emblematic in the neighborhood of Oquendo, an area where mafias of extortionists and land trafficking prevail.”
“One of those subjects was now businessman Zamir Villaverde, who, as everyone knows, was imprisoned for aggravated robbery and was expelled from the armed forces for a series of indisciplines and crimes. His friendship with Fray Vasquez began in his restaurant and ended up in the Government Palacei,/i” he added.
Villaverde extended its tentacles to the real estate sector with Company Inmobiliaria e Inversiones, thus acquired a property that had been seized by the judiciary from a police colonel convicted of corruption in one of the cases linked to Vladimiro Montesinos, on Conchitas beach, located at kilometer 147 of the Panamericana Sur, in Cañete.
Karelim López confessed that the businessman finances a life of luxury to the president's nephews such as vehicles, branded clothing, expensive watches and even trips abroad.
DEATH THREAT
Due to his criminal past, it is common for Villaverde to threaten those who are against him, as happened with Karelim López, who told in his first statement to the Prosecutor's Office on February 18, that the businessman had threatened her and Luis Pasapera, one of the representatives of Termirex, a consortium favored by the award of the Puente Tarata project last October.
The lobbyist commented that Pedro Castillo's great friend had attended the Pasapera office with four armed men to threaten him with death and noted that López “already had a bullet in his head”, according to the version of the aspiring effective collaborator.
The Secretary General of the Government Palace, Bruno Pacheco, had warned Karelim López to be careful with Zamir Villaverde because it was dangerous.
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