Overview

• The Fifth National Criminal Appeals panel upheld Herrera’s challenge of improcedencia de acción and ordered the organized-crime count archived.
• The ruling partially revoked a July 2 first-instance decision by Judge Fernando Valdez Pimentel that had rejected her request.
• The decision’s effects are limited to Herrera, and prosecutors were instructed to continue proceedings against other individuals under investigation.
• The court left in place the influence-peddling allegation against Herrera, which remains active.
• Prosecutors allege the ‘Los Waykis en la Sombra’ network placed allies in state posts to aid the registration of the Ciudadanos por el Perú party, and the resolution was issued on October 2 and reported October 13–14.