Overview
- Police anti-corruption units and the Public Ministry conducted a pre-dawn operation that searched the Chao municipal headquarters and properties in Chao, Trujillo and Ascope.
- Preliminary detentions ranged from at least seven to as many as thirteen across reports, with 13 to 15 simultaneous raids documented.
- The investigation targets alleged collusion tied to the balance of works for school I.E. No. 82210 Karina Violeta Damián Alayo, with the state’s loss estimated at about S/5.54 million.
- FECOF La Libertad’s Fifth Office, led by prosecutors Víctor Bazán Alagón and Henry Rufino Alzamora, is securing documents and electronic devices to build the case.
- Those named alongside Mayor Juan Carlos Soles Carbajal include Edwin Chávez Rodríguez, Karla Valqui Chávez, Riquelme Mantilla García, Jhoed Blas Quispe, Carlos Cancino Cervan and Cosme Orbegoso Quispe, with Contraloría specialists assisting evidence seizures.