The former general manager of Petroperu, Hugo Chávez Arévalo, has surrendered this Monday to the Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office following 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 surrender myself voluntarily», he has said to journalists while entering the building escorted by Peruvian Police officers, as reported by RPP channel.
Last November 25, a preliminary arrest warrant was issued for ten days against Chávez Arévalo after it became known that he was going to travel without a return ticket to Bolivia on Monday 21, for which reason Judge Ingrid Estacio Soria issued the aforementioned judicial order.
Chávez Arévalo is implicated in a case that investigates the alleged irregularities in a bidding of 74 million dollars (about 65 million Euros) granted to the company Heaven Petroleum Operators (HPO) after its manager, Samir Abudayeh, met with the Peruvian President Pedro Castillo.
The television program Panorama, of the Peruvian television channel Panamericana, reported Castillo’s meetings with Abudayeh and Chavez at the presidential palace and the subsequent bidding for the purchase of biodiesel which benefited Abudayeh four days later. The meetings were confirmed thanks to the information available in the Government’s transparency portal.
