Peruvian authorities released the businessman Jaime B.

Jaime B., controlling shareholder of the company that provides goods and government services Oil Services & Solutions (OSS), investigated for the alleged payment of commissions to officials from Petroecuador, was released in Peru on August 30, 2016, according to information delivered by the lawyer and the Ecuadorian authorities to El Comercio Diary.

The businessman´s defense requested his immediate release after Peruvian authorities declared the expulsion order of this country null. According to Jorge Acosta, Jaime´s lawyer, the National Superintendency of Migration of the Interior Ministry of Peru, accepted the appeal filed by the defense.

Jaime B. entered Peru on August 17 and was scheduled to fly to Miami, but Interpol activated the red alert against the businessman for being as “fugitive wanted for criminal proceedings in Ecuador for the crime of fraud to public management “.

On the night of August 17, authorities from Callao, in Peru, retained Jaime B. as a provisional arrest and reserved manner.