Deputy Jesús Pérez Alccahuamán (Together for Peru) will have to debate from the Energy and Mines Commission the future of the Comprehensive Registry of Mining Formalization (Reinfo), whose extension period expires in December. Meanwhile, he has hired two people linked to informal mining in his office.
One of them is Elías Wilfredo del Carpio Gómez, incorporated as his main advisor. Del Carpio currently has two current registrations in Reinfo, corresponding to two mining rights located in Paramonga, Barranca. In addition, he has been general manager, since 2012, of Minera Huarmey SAC, a company that has a current registration in Huarmey, Áncash, and another suspended one in Paramonga.
His business ties with Reinfo extend to four other companies. Minera Huaycoloro SA has a suspended registration in San Antonio, Huarochirí, Lima; Tecnológico Superior Minero Metalúrgico SAC registers another one in the same district; Empresa Minera Norte Chico SAC has a suspended registration in Paramonga; and Minera Cachachi Gold SAC, one in Cachachi, Cajabamba, Cajamarca.
But those are not the only links to informal registration. Del Carpio was a candidate for the Senate for Huánuco for Podemos Peru in the last elections and, for his campaign, he received contributions from Herminio Daga Salgado, who also has ties to mining activity. He is deputy manager of Corporación Daga Hnos. SAC and manager of the Condor Pasa SCRL Tourist Complex and Viewpoint, both with suspended registrations in the Reinfo.
In his resume, Del Carpio presented himself as a consultant in mining, metallurgical and environmental matters, although at Sunedu only studies in Economics and Business Administration appear. In Jesús Pérez’s office, he has been hired in the highest position, with an approximate remuneration of S/14,700.
The second hired by Pérez is José Gabriel Mendoza Salazar, who has a bachelor’s degree in Education and works as a technician in his office, with a monthly salary of S/5,817.
Mendoza registers two suspended registrations in Reinfo, both in Andahuaylas, Apurímac, the same region through which Pérez came to Congress. In addition, for his electoral campaign, Mendoza contributed more than S/5,000 in cash, through four deliveries.
Mendoza Salazar has suspended registrations in Reinfo.
It should be noted that, before coming to Congress, Jesús Pérez was a leader of the Regional Federation of Indigenous Mining Communities of Apurímac (Fedecim) and held the general secretary of the Totora Oropesa Mining and Agricultural Association (Amato). In his resume he also stated that he had been manager of Empresa Minera Vilsur SA El Comercio tried to communicate with the deputy without success.
The Energy and Mines Commission will have to address the future of the mining formalization process in the coming months. The extension of the Reinfo will be valid until December 31, 2026 or until the Small Mining and Artisanal Mining Law (ASM) and its regulations come into force. The Executive has announced that it will present a proposal to establish a new regulatory framework for this sector and define the conditions under which the formalization process will continue.
Another office
Pérez’s case is not the only one within the Chamber of Deputies. Carmen Duarte Patiño, of the Good Government Party, has in her office Rafael Eugenio Sotomayor Gutiérrez, who registers a suspended registration in the Reinfo in Chupaca, Junín, the region where the deputy comes from.
Sotomayor has been hired as coordinator of Duarte’s office, with a monthly salary of S/2,300. Congresswoman Duarte, who is a substitute on the Energy and Mines Commission, also did not respond to our messages.
