Dedicated to business activity, he has been a shareholder and manager of various companies, mainly in the real estate area, as well as automotive and IT.
He is former president of the Carlos A. Mannucci club, President of the Universidad Técnica de Cajamarca, cousin-brother of the Member of the National Jury of Elections of Willy Ramírez Chavarry, and the largest financier of the Popular Force Party.
He would later become the right-hand man of Keiko Fujimori and Secretary General of the Popular Force political party.
He resigned in 2016 amid charges that he was a member of the Untouchables, a Peru-based illegal drug trade gang, along with his uncle Fidel Ramirez (owner of Universidad Alas Peruanas).
[4][5] In September 2014, the attorney Julia Príncipe would say: “An unusual increase in the patrimony of Congressman Joaquín Ramírez, from 2003 to date, which was developed mainly in the real estate field through his companies, when in the beginning he only he worked as a public transport collector.” On 15 May 2016 Univision Noticias issued a report in which an investigation against him initiated for money laundering was attributed, carried out by the DEA -Drug Enforcement Administration- on US$15 million that were delivered to him by Keiko Fujimori.