mayor of Lima in the Comunicore case because the Prosecutor's Office provided sufficient evidence of the agreement with the aforementioned company to economically harm the municipality. He has also been criticized for the inclusion of his name in a large part of the works made during his tenure for political purposes, a fact that he has justified by stating that "you must know who did the work." In September 2011, he was included in the process for the irregular payment of 35.9 million nuevos soles to a "ghost company" during his tenure as mayor of Lima. The former mayor presented a Habeas corpus against this measure, but finally in January 2012, the 12th Criminal Court of Lima ordered that Castañeda Lossio must be prosecuted for this case. On 15 March 2013, audio recordings leaked to the press were broadcast over national television revealing that Luis Castañeda Lossio was indeed in charge of the campaign to recall Lima's first female Mayor, Susana Villaran. Before the leaks Castañeda Lossio had publicly denied his involvement in the recall process. In May 2014, the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office initiated an investigation into Castañeda Lossio for the improper collection of 200,000 new soles in the years he was mayor of Lima. While mayor of Lima, Castañeda attracted criticism for various policies that were seen as retrogressive attempts to erase the legacy of his predecessor. These included erasing murals commissioned by Villarán, undoing reforms she had made to Lima's public transit system, barring the public from city council meetings, and cancelling plans to remake the banks and neighborhoods along the Rimac River in downtown Lima into a new park, the so-called Rio Verde Project. Following the cancellation of the Rio Verde project, one of the neighborhoods that would have been transformed (Cantagallo) was, instead, devastated by a fire in November 2016, which forced out hundreds of Shipibo-Konibo community members. Odebrecht scandal As of January 2020, Castañeda remained the subject of investigations into wider allegations of corruption linked to the Brazilian construction firms Odebrecht and Grupo OAS. On 14 February 2020, Judge Maria de los Angeles Camacho ordered 24 months of preventive detention for this case against the former mayor, while José Luna Gálvez and Giselle Zegarra will have a restricted appearance for 36 months, with certain rules of conduct. Personal life and death Castañeda died from cardiopulmonary arrest in Lima, on 12 January 2022 at the age