Overview
- On Oct. 6 the Second National Pretrial Court declared itself incompetent and sent questions about which tribunal should hear the money‑laundering case to the Lima Superior Court, creating uncertainty about the venue for a planned preventive‑detention hearing.
- Hurtado's lawyers filed a written request on Sept. 29 asking the Judiciary to lift his preventive detention and a Supreme provisional judge has set a virtual hearing to review that petition.
- The Public Ministry's Second Despacho has asked for eight months of preventive detention in an aggravated money‑laundering investigation that targets alleged conversion, transfer, concealment and possession of assets linked to Hurtado.
- Hurtado remains held in the Lurigancho prison while he also faces the high‑profile 'Barras de Oro' bribery case in which a deputy prosecutor has sought a 30‑year sentence for alleged influence‑peddling tied to Javier Miu Lei and Elizabeth Peralta.
- The split between detention requests, overlapping probes and the court competence fight means judicial timing will determine whether Hurtado is released, kept detained or faces additional pretrial measures, and it could delay final decisions on both the money‑laundering and bribery matters.