Overview
- Peru’s interior minister ordered half of police on duty in Lima and Callao to operate in plain clothes to bolster field intelligence against extortion targeting urban transport routes.
- The shift follows a string of attacks under investigation, including a bus shooting, gunfire at a company yard and a depot fire that destroyed five vehicles.
- In Ayacucho, anti-corruption prosecutors detained Cangallo’s mayor Teófilo Núñez and a businessman in raids on 14 locations tied to alleged bid rigging and overvalued municipal works, seizing electronics, documents and more than S/24,000.
- Spain’s Guardia Civil arrested the president and vice president of the Almería provincial council over suspected commissions linked to pandemic-era protective equipment contracts, prompting their provisional suspension from the Andalusian PP.
- A separate UCO report to the Supreme Court describes covert meetings by former PSOE official Santos Cerdán with two other suspects during contested tenders, citing encrypted apps, phone shutdowns and a rented meeting site.