Overview

• The Congressional Fiscalization Commission formally cited Prime Minister Eduardo Arana and Justice Minister Juan José Santiváñez to appear on Wednesday, September 17, to explain recordings broadcast by Panorama.
• The audio attributes voices to Santiváñez asking Arana to arrange a more comfortable pavilion for convicted ex‑police officer Miguel Marcelo Salirrosas at the El Milagro prison in Trujillo, reportedly recorded inside the Interior Ministry by a relative of the inmate.
• The Public Ministry, through adjunct prosecutor Luis Ballón, dates the call to September 2024 and reports an open probe with at least 77 audios, 33 images and more than 1,000 messages, alongside a thesis that fees of S/20,000 and US$20,000 were sought to influence a Constitutional Court case.
• Santiváñez acknowledges meeting Salirrosas’s wife and phoning Arana about a transfer request but rejects any crime, saying he renounced representation upon taking office and that the US$20,000 were banked legal fees.
• Cabinet members urge forensic voice authentication and deny a government crisis, with the health, environment and economy ministers calling for an objective investigation and asserting the administration’s stability.