The bill that benefits the advertising panel companies presented by Congresswoman Ediht Julón (APP) would have a clear conflict of interest. As revealed a final point report, Juan Carlos Alfaro Acuñanephew of César Acuña, is the founder of a recognized company that provides the panel service and that, in fact, has contracts with the State.
The initiative of APP It is called law that grants incentives to the foreign advertising industry and seeks to benefit advertising panel companies with licenses or authorizations without expiration period and with the benefit of not paying the right of public space to the municipalities for a period of three years.
Well, one of César Acuña’s relatives who would benefit from this law is Juan Carlos Alfaro Acuña, son of the sister of the leader of APPMaría Acuña Peralta.
Alfaro Acuña is the founder of Alac Management, known before as Alac Outdoor, a company dedicated to advertising in panels distributed throughout the city of Lima.
In addition to this, this company is a supplier of the Stateand in 2019 it was involved in the investigation that began to César Acuña For alleged money laundering, for money managed during the 2016 election campaign.
APP bill would harm the municipalities
In this regard, José Carlos Untiveros, manager of the Private Promotion of the municipality of Lima, warned, in an interview to the end, that the app initiative is “completely harmful to the interests of the city, of the Lima and that violates the rights of district competences.”
“What is being raised is that through a licensing system that is a system where it is not paid, space is given to perpetuity, that has changed the municipality last year, the ordinance 2682 that regulates the license for panels has changed and what has been established is that in the metropolitan roads we will establish a system of concessions and competitive processes for the greater value of the public space,” he explained.
Therefore, he noted that, since their instance, they have stated that they are competitive processes and where according to the investment amount they are given a deadline to recover the investment. “The public space cannot be given perpetuity,” he claims.
“In addition to putting harmful licenses, it is exonerating the payment for the municipalities that can process it through licenses, it also says that this law is for economic reactivation but there is no stoppage of the sector, all panels are placed to date in a short inventory that we have made we have found more than a thousand panels without authorization, we estimate that there are 3 thousand panels on the roads of the Metropolitan Municipality that do not pay a sun,” he said.
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