Mi Financiera created a parallel cooperative to avoid control

By: Roberth Orihuela

Olenka Guardamino Saravia is surprised and at the same time outraged. Her name appears as a founding member of the Cooperativa de Servicios Múltiples (CSM) Mi Financiera Perú. This was created on July 9, 2019 supposedly by twelve partners, who contributed the initial capital of S / 1,400,000. But Olenka says she does not know her alleged “partners of hers” and even less have given her name so that they include her as a founder. “I don’t know nor have I ever worked with Mi Financiera”, she points out, after explaining the reason for the creation of Mi Financiera Peru.

In February 2018, the Superintendence of Banking, Insurance and AFPs (SBS) began the process of dissolution of the Savings and Credit Cooperative (Coopac) Mi Financiera before the Judiciary. This at the request of the National Federation of Savings and Credit Cooperatives of Peru (Fenacrep), because the savings of the members of the cooperative were at risk.

In the middle of the trial, the directors of the Coopac Mi Financiera did not come up with a better idea than to create another cooperative under a modality that would allow them to get out of the control of the SBS. This information was confirmed by Israel Chávez Luque, president of the Board of Directors of Mi Financiera, yesterday to a radio medium. He pointed out that they were in the process of “transformation” and that they were going to switch to the Multiple Service Cooperative modality.

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This new legal person would be Mi Financiera Peru. But this society causes a lot of strangeness. And it is that the partners who supposedly founded it would not have the funds to contribute and collect all S / 1.4 million. This is indicated by a source close to Coopac Mi Financiera. “It is also striking that some of them were workers of Mr. Hipólito Batallanos. He and his family are linked to the creation of Mi Financiera, Mi Financiera Peru and other cooperatives. The goal is to make a profit,” he explains.

Mi Financiera Peru is extremely suspicious. According to Public Deed No. 4807 of the Concha Revilla Notary Public, located in the Cerro Colorado district, Messrs. Oscar David Benavente Angulo —former director of Credicoop— and John Salomón Olivera Aguirre —former employee of Credicoop— would have been authorized by the “founding partners” to establish the CSM Mi Financiera Peru. For this they presented the foundation act signed, supposedly, by the 12 founding partners. But it turns out that at least one of them does not recognize having participated.

This is Olenka Guardamino. This woman explained to La República that she actually knows Hipólito Batallanos. She was his secretary between 2003 and 2011 at El Zondor Irrigation, located in Majes (Caylloma). After that she lost contact with him. “Just because we know each other doesn’t give you the right to use my name. Maybe he thought he would never find out. The fact already implies intent and I am consulting with a lawyer to see what measures I am going to take, because I do not know to what extent it could affect me, ”explained Guardamino. And it is that the Batallanos family is investigated by Money Laundering and together with them Mi Financiera Peru.

Another ex-worker of Batallanos is José Ardiles Arévalo. We went to his house and there his mother told us that the man died two years ago. She pointed out that he was a Credicoop worker for many years, but she does not know if his son participated or not in the founding of Mi Financiera Peru.v