Rómulo León Alegría (born 7 October 1946) is a politician from
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...
. He is a member of the
APRA party. He has been imprisoned for his involvement in requesting
bribes from foreign oil companies seeking to explore and drill in the Peruvian amazon rainforest. The company involved in this deal was Discover Petroleum International from Norway.
[http://www.norwaypost.no/content/view/21106/1/ Peru: Norwegian oil company involved in corruption] The activities were discovered when audio tapes of Rómulo León negotiating the bribes were released to the press. He is the father of former Congresswoman
Luciana León.
Biography
Alegría was born on October 7, 1946, in Trujillo, the son of former deputy Rómulo León Ramírez and Yolanda Alegría.
He completed his school studies at the Colegio San José Obrero school in the city of Trujillo.
He studied Sociology at the
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
The National University of San Marcos (, UNMSM) is a public research university located in Lima, the capital of Peru. In the Americas, it is the first officially established ( privilege by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor) and the oldest continu ...
; then he studied Regional Development Planning in London. He has a Master's Degree in Governance and Public Policies and a Doctorate in Governance from the Government Institute of the
San Martín de Porres University.
He has been a professor at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Universidad de Lima and at the Peruvian Institute of Business Administration (IPAE).
He was the founder of the newspaper Hoy, of which he has also been a member of the board.
He is the father of former Congresswoman
Luciana León, from the same party, APRA.
See also
*
2008 Peru oil scandal
*
2009 Peruvian political crisis
*
Alan García
Alan Gabriel Ludwig García Pérez (; 23 May 1949 – 17 April 2019) was a Peruvian politician who served as President of Peru for two non-consecutive terms from 1985 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2011. He was the second leader of the American Popula ...
References
External links
Official Congressional Site. Full members list.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Leon, Romulo
Living people
American Popular Revolutionary Alliance politicians
Members of the Congress of the Republic of Peru
1946 births
People from the Department of La Libertad