Rómulo León Alegría is a politician from Peru

Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

. He is a member of the ruling 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. The activities were discovered when audio tapes of Rómulo León negotiating the bribes were released to the press.

See also

• 2008 Peru oil scandal
  2008 Peru oil scandal
  The 2008 Peru oil scandal started after a Peruvian TV station broadcast an audio tape of an alleged conversation between a government official and a lobbyist agreeing to help a firm win contracts...
  
  
• 2009 Peruvian political crisis
  2009 Peruvian political crisis
  The 2009 Peruvian political crisis resulted from the ongoing opposition to oil development in the Peruvian Amazon, with local Native Americans opposing Petroperú and the National Police...
  
  
• Rómulo León
• Alan García

External links

• Official Congressional Site. Full members list.