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Interim Peru Attorney General Tomás Gálvez Pushes Overhaul With Call to Disband Special Teams

He proposed constitutional primacy over treaties alongside tighter thresholds for opening cases.

Overview

  • Appearing before Congress's special justice-reform commission, Gálvez outlined constitutional changes aimed at rebalancing powers and limiting what he called unchecked prosecutorial discretion.
  • He said all special prosecutorial teams, including the Lava Jato unit, should be deactivated due to politicization and structural contradictions, noting the Supreme Prosecutors’ Board must decide.
  • Gálvez argued that prosecutors would keep their cases even if teams are dissolved, asserting that completed results remain valid and ongoing investigations would continue under regular structures.
  • Defending personnel moves, he confirmed he ended the designations of supreme adjunct prosecutors Marcial Páucar, Luis Ballón, and Hernán Mendoza Salvador, rejecting claims of shielding officials under investigation.
  • Backing lawmakers who seek to archive what he called excessive constitutional complaints, he vowed to propose specific parameters for opening inquiries and said an Organic Law would be needed to reinforce a Fiscalía circular.