Jose Miguel Castro, who was a Lima municipality official during ex-mayor Susana Villaran’s term from 2011-2014, was found dead Sunday morning at his home in the capital, where he was under house arrest.
Castro was cooperating with state prosecutors investigating Villaran, who is accused of receiving millions of dollars in bribes from Brazilian construction firms Odebrecht and OAS.
“We were expecting his valuable contribution” to the trial, he added.
In 2022, prosecutors requested a 29-year prison sentence for the 75-year-old former mayor.
The leftist former mayor has been on probation since May 2021 after spending a year in pretrial detention.
Former Odebrecht chief in Peru, Jorge Barata, who struck a cooperation deal with prosecutors, told them his company financed Villaran’s campaign, fearing its municipal contracts would be jeopardized if she were removed in the recall vote.
The scandal imprisoned dozens of Latin American political and business leaders.
Odebrecht admitted to US authorities in 2016 that it paid $29 million in bribes in Peru between 2005 and 2014.
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