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Courts in Peru and Argentina Intensify Probes With Raids, Trial Moves and Ballot Challenges

Legal institutions moved rapidly to tighten controls over corruption probes alongside election filings.

Overview

  • In Argentina’s Sur Finanzas case, federal judge Luis Armella ordered a raid on businessman Javier Faroni’s home in Nordelta and imposed a travel ban in a probe into alleged diversion of AFA-linked funds abroad.
  • Prosecutor Cristian Aguilar requested trial for Bahiense del Norte president Leandro Ginóbili and a municipal official over the 2023 collapse, while opening a new evidence‑tampering investigation based on phone forensics that could implicate Ginóbili, Darío Faure and perito Enrique Gil.
  • Peru’s JEE Lima Centro 1 admitted a challenge to Renovación Popular’s presidential slate, setting a one‑day window for the party’s response, as parallel filings and fixes proceed on Perú Primero’s ticket led by Mario Vizcarra.
  • Peru’s Primera Fiscalía Superior Penal de Lima Este definitively filed away former minister Juan José Santiváñez’s complaint against Latina journalists, citing a lack of evidence for alleged ‘reglaje’.
  • In Buenos Aires province, lawyer Nicolás Payarola was transferred to a penitentiary and placed in preventive detention over 11 alleged frauds, with prosecutors citing risk of flight and obstruction.