Overview

• Authorities executed simultaneous searches at 19 properties across San Juan de Lurigancho, Rímac, Cercado de Lima, San Miguel and Independencia under fiscal Irene Mercado Zavala with the GRECCO/PNP team.
• The network is accused of charging colectivo drivers, merchants, restaurant owners and construction unions a weekly S/20–S/25 fee enforced through WhatsApp threats.
• Judicial orders secured preliminary detention for 12 Peruvians as investigators seized more than S/225,000, about US$2,500, a firearm, ammunition, phones and stickers that marked vehicles paying the fees.
• Prosecutors linked payments to Yape and Plin accounts, lifted banking secrecy and estimate illicit proceeds at S/2,847,451 as asset‑tracing and money‑laundering inquiries continue.
• Investigators are examining the roles of alleged leaders known as Maycol and Criter and possible ties to at least six violent incidents, with charges spanning extortion, organized crime and money laundering.