Reber Joaquín Ramírez Gamarra, formerly known as Reber Ramírez (born 7 January 1970), is a Peruvian businessman and

Fujimorist Fujimorism () denotes the policies and the political ideology of former President of Peru Alberto Fujimori as well as the personality cult built around him, his policies and his family. The ideology is defined by authoritarianism, its support for ...

politician, formerly a

Congressman A Member of Congress (MOC) is a person who has been appointed or elected and inducted into an official body called a congress, typically to represent a particular constituency in a legislature. The term member of parliament (MP) is an equivalen ...

representing the

Cajamarca Region Cajamarca (; qu, Kashamarka; ay, Qajamarka) is a department and region in Peru. The capital is the city of Cajamarca. It is located in the north part of the country and shares a border with Ecuador. The city has an elevation of above sea le ...

for the 2011–2016 term.

Business career

Dedicated to business activity, he has been a shareholder and manager of various companies, mainly in the real estate area, as well as automotive and IT. In 2008, he graduated with a degree in Business Administration from Alas Peruanas University. He has also completed a postgraduate degree at the Atlantic International University between 2009 and 2011. He is former president of the

Carlos A. Mannucci Carlos A. Mannucci, known simply as Mannucci, is a professional football club based in Trujillo, La Libertad, Peru. The club is the most important in the city having represented Trujillo in the first division of Peruvian football in multiple o ...

club, President of the

Universidad Técnica de Cajamarca Universidad Técnica de Cajamarca (usually referred to as UTC) is the biggest Peruvian football club in the city of Cajamarca, Peru. It was founded in 1964 and play in the Torneo Descentralizado which is the top flight of the Peruvian league. Hi ...

, cousin-brother of the Member of the

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of Willy Ramírez Chavarry, and the largest financier of the Popular Force Party.

Political career

In the

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, he ran for

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, representing the

under the Force 2011 party of Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of former President

Alberto Fujimori Alberto Kenya Fujimori Inomoto ( or ; born 28 July 1938) is a Peruvian politician, professor and former engineer who was President of Peru from 28 July 1990 until 22 November 2000. Frequently described as a dictator, * * * * * * he remains a ...

and was elected for the 2011–2016 term. He would later become the right-hand man of Keiko Fujimori and Secretary General of the

Popular Force People's Force ( es, Fuerza Popular, FP), known as Force 2011 ( es, Fuerza 2011, links=no) until 2012, is a right-wing populist and Fujimorist political party in Peru. The party is led by Keiko Fujimori, former congresswoman and daughter of form ...

political party. He resigned in 2016 amid charges that he was a member of ''the Untouchables'', a Peru-based

illegal drug trade The illegal drug trade or drug trafficking is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of prohibited drugs. Most jurisdictions prohibit trade, except under license, of many types of drugs through ...

gang, along with his uncle Fidel Ramirez (owner of

Universidad Alas Peruanas Universidad Alas Peruanas (UAP or Peruvian Wings University) is a university located in Lima, Peru, founded on April 26, 1996, by Joaquin Ramirez thorough an Cooperativa Alas Peruanas, composed of members of the Peruvian Armed Forces. In January ...

). The organization is allegedly headed by Miguel Arevalo "Eteco" Ramirez. He has become the main financier of the

ever since.

Controversies

In 2014, he was denounced by the Asset Laundering Attorney, but being a Congressman of the Republic he had parliamentary immunity, so it was not possible to carry out preliminary investigations to clarify his fortune, which exceeded US $ 7 million, investigation which also involved his family. In September 2014, the attorney Julia Príncipe would say: “An unusual increase in the patrimony of Congressman Joaquín Ramírez, from 2003 to date, which was developed mainly in the real estate field through his companies, when in the beginning he only he worked as a public transport collector.” On May 15, 2016, Univision Noticias issued a report in which an investigation against him initiated for money laundering was attributed, carried out by the DEA -Drug Enforcement Administration- on US$ 15 million that were delivered to him by Keiko Fujimori.

References

External links

Peruvian government bio page (in Spanish)
1970 births Fujimorista politicians Living people Members of the Congress of the Republic of Peru Peruvian businesspeople People from Cajamarca Region {{Peru-politician-stub