Luis José Nava Guibert (born March 19, 1946) is a Peruvian lawyer and politician. He served as Secretary General of the Presidency, from July 2006 to May 2011; and Minister of Production, from May to July 2011, during the second presidency of Alan García.
Currently, Nava serves 36-month preventive prison sentence, while the Odebrecht case proceedings are taken into account by the Peruvian Judiciary.
Biography
Nava is an attorney holding a law degree Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal, with graduate studies at the Universidad de San Martín de Porres, specializing in labor law.
Under Alan García's first administration, he was appointed chairman of the Board of Directors of Mutual Perú, which dissolved at the end of the term. He was served prison sentence for almost a year in 1993, accused of fraud, against public faith and unlawful appropriation. He would be acquitted by the Peruvian Judiciary in 1994.
He ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Peruvian Congress in the 2000 Peruvian general election with the Peruvian Aprista Party. He served as legislative staffer in the Peruvian Congress, from January 1, 2001 to July 26, 2006.
Nava was a senior partner at «Nava & Huesa: Attorneys and Associates», until 2004, when he transferred his shares to his son Luis Nava Mendiola, who in mid-2006 became the majority partner, with 99% of shares. Likewise, in 1995, he founded the transportation company Don Reyna, of which he was chairman until July 25, 2006, when he transferred it to his children and brother.
In the second presidency of Alan García, Nava was appointed Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic, a position akin to a Government Chief of Staff. He served in the position throughout almost the entire administration, until 14 May 2011, when he was appointed Minister of Production for the remainder of the term, replacing Jorge Villasante Araníbar.
In the 2011 elections, he unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the Andean Parliament with the Peruvian Aprista Party.
The investigative committee formed in Congress to investigate the alleged irregularities of the second García administration, said in a report, an alleged imbalance in their accounts (that is, a difference between their justified income and their expenses). Nava indicated in due course to the media that the aforementioned report was prepared in violation of his constitutional rights with erroneous information and without conforming to the truth, and that there was no imbalance. The prosecution agreed with the decision of July 2, 2018, ordering the filing of the investigation, indicating that the commission's report contained gross errors.
Controversies
Cited before the Lava Jato Commission in Congress, Nava acknowledged that the Nava & Huesa Law Firm and the Transportes Don Reyna company had commercial relations with Odebrecht. It is known that Transportes Don Reyna, whose manager since 2006 was his son José Antonio, received US$18 million for services rendered to Odebrecht, as a contractor for works such as the Interoceánica del Sur highway and Transvase Olmos.