PETROPERU ratifies its anti-corruption and transparency fighting policy

The Chairman of the Board of Directors of PETROPERU, Carlos Paredes Lanatta, informed, through an interview with the newspaper El Comercio, that after an important work of investigation, compilation and contrasting of information, the existence of punitive acts committed by some workers of the State company, having generated disciplinary processes and sent letters of notice of dismissal, as well as (in the cases that apply) the initiation of the respective legal actions.

Paredes Lanatta said that the Board of Directors and senior management of PETROPERU, as well as the vast majority of the company's workers, who support with their honesty and effort support the sanction of acts, are engaged in promoting this effort to fight corruption. improper and illegal.

Clarification

PETROPERU clarifies that in the interview with Mr. Paredes Lanatta, published in the print version of the newspaper El Comercio on Saturday, November 9, 2019, the erroneous figure of US $ 1,500 million was recorded as an extra cost for the solution of differences with companies in charge of the execution of the Talara Refinery Modernization Project (PMRT), Técnicas Reunidas and the Cobra SCL consortium. The correct figure is US $ 220 million.

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