Prosecutors, anti-corruption and anti-organized crime police units raided the house located in the Lima district of Pueblo Libre in the early hours of the morning and the search continued several hours later.

Hinojosa was included in the investigation of the case in the first days of December and the operation included the search of two other houses, one of them belonging to Francisco Burga, a businessman who supplied canned horse meat and other inappropriate food.

According to previous investigations, these products were approved through bribes by health control officials and the Ministry of Social Inclusion, in charge of the school feeding program in state schools.

The facts were reported by a former employee of the program and date back to 2021, when the current president was head of that ministry and Hinojosa headed the program and was deputy minister of the sector, the current minister of the area is Julio Demartini.

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