Overview
- Workers reported a white plastic bag containing an explosive and a handwritten extortion note at the Santa Inés construction site, and police say the items were left on the property on Saturday.
- The Unidad de Desactivación de Explosivos (UDEX) removed and neutralized the device at the scene, and the Policía Nacional opened an active criminal investigation.
- The note demanded S/500,000, named the senders as 'Los Pulpos', included a contact number with a Colombian country code, and addressed engineers and managers on the project.
- No arrests have been reported and investigators are working to verify authorship, trace the phone number and gather forensic evidence from the explosive forensics.
- The incident raises security and fiscal risks for the high-value GORE La Libertad headquarters project, which has a contract value of roughly S/161 million and more than S/102 million disbursed through September 2026, with completion planned for 2030.