Overview
- Interim Attorney General Tomás Gálvez formally deactivated the Equipo Especial Lava Jato this week.
- Lead prosecutor José Domingo Pérez is no longer handling the Susana Villarán case following the team’s shutdown.
- Lima’s superior prosecutors temporarily assigned provincial prosecutor Alexander Daniel Taboada Guardián to oversee the case during the handover.
- At the Jan. 8 hearing, the court cut the session short for administrative transfers and postponed a planned interrogation to Jan. 13.
- Most former team members were reassigned to Anti–Money Laundering offices under coordinator Germán Juárez, while Villarán faces money laundering and corruption charges with a 29-year prison request.