Overview
- An official resolution published in El Peruano (No. 3680‑2025‑MP‑FN) removed Germán Juárez Atoche from the Lava Jato team and appointed him provisional senior prosecutor for Lima Centro over the Third Superior Prosecutor’s Office for Asset Laundering.
- The move fills the post held by Elizabeth Peralta Santur, who remains under preventive detention and was previously separated by the control authority, rendering any appointment to her position inoperative until her legal status changes.
- Members of the Lava Jato team were informed and accepted Juárez Atoche’s promotion, though sources cited in local reports cautioned it could be a maneuver to weaken or divide the unit.
- Tomás Gálvez also removed Juan Paúl Ramos Navarro from parts of the Cuellos Blancos investigation and named Iván Melgar Cáceres to take over, a shift that places Melgar in charge of a case that includes Gálvez and that reporters note features his past contacts with former CNM figures.
- The Junta de Fiscales Supremos will meet on December 10 to address Congress’s 10‑year inhabilitation of Delia Espinoza after a second criminal notification, and Gálvez signaled an immediate vote on her replacement is unlikely.