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Global News Blog (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
... general manager Miguel Celi, and Perupetro’s current president Daniel Saba and former director Alberto Químper — were named to their posts by the administration of Alan García, who took office in July 2006. (Petroperu is the state-run oil company involved in the transportation, refinery and commercialisation of fuel and other oil derivatives, while Perupetro is the government licensing...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Last updated October 10, 2008 6:38 p.m. PTPeru president accepts resignation of CabinetBy ANDREW WHALENASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER In this photo released by Andina Agency, former state oil executive Alberto Quimper is escorted by police in Lima, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. Peru's President Alan Garcia suspended five oil contracts with Norwegian oil company Discover Petroleum after audiotapes surfaced...
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
... to surface allegedly captured two members of Garcia's political party discussing payoffs: Alberto Quimper, a state oil executive, and Romulo Leon, agricultural minister during Garcia's first administration in the 1980s. Quimper was fired from his post Monday and arrested late Tuesday. An arrest warrant has been issued for Leon, whose whereabouts were unknown. New tapes surfaced...
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
... to surface allegedly captured two members of Garcia's political party discussing payoffs: Alberto Quimper, a state oil executive, and Romulo Leon, agricultural minister during Garcia's first administration in the 1980s.
Quimper was fired from his post Monday and arrested late Tuesday. An arrest warrant has been issued for Leon, whose whereabouts were unknown.
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
... to surface allegedly captured two members of Garcia's political party discussing payoffs: Alberto Quimper, a state oil executive, and Romulo Leon, agricultural minister during Garcia's first administration in the 1980s.Quimper was fired from his post Monday and arrested late Tuesday. An arrest warrant has been issued for Leon, whose whereabouts were unknown.New tapes surfaced...
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Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
... five fields in September, in a partnership formed with the State via Petroperú. In the recordings, Alberto Quimper, one of PerúPetro’s directors, and the now fugitive Rómulo Leon, an ex minister of Garcia, takk about kickbacks to get the petroliferous lots for Discover Petroleum. The scandal reached del Castillo in the last few days when new audio tapes were heard in which Leon talks...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
... along with two other high-ranking energy officials in Peru, which has a growing petroleum industry.Alberto Quimper, a board member of state energy agency Perupetro, which organises auctions of exploration lots and awards contracts, and Cesar Gutierrez, president of state oil and gas company Petroperu, were fired.Late on Sunday, audio tapes surfaced on an investigative television news...
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inca kola news (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Last night Peru investigative reporting program "El Cuarto Poder" played audio tapes of APRA party insider Romulo Leon and PetroPeru bigwig Alberto Quimper as they discussed the best way to make themslves a noice slice of bribery and corruption money. Between them they arranged for a foreign oil company, Discover Petroleum of Norway, to land five concession blocks in Peru. To get the...
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
... along with two other high-ranking energy officials in Peru, which has a growing petroleum industry.Alberto Quimper, a board member of state energy agency Perupetro, which organizes auctions of exploration lots and awards contracts, and Cesar Gutierrez, president of state oil and gas company Petroperu, were fired.
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
... station broadcast what it said were recorded telephone conversations in which state oil executive Alberto Quimper and APRA party member Romulo Leon discuss receiving US$5,000 to help Discover win the bid, and plans to request another US$100,000 to US$200,000 once the contracts were granted.They did not mention what currency the payoffs would come in, but local newspapers assumed they...
