Overview
- Judge Jorge Chávez Tamariz partially granted prosecutors’ request, reducing a 36‑month extension bid to 24 months.
- The Sept. 26 ruling prolongs the preparatory phase of a money‑laundering case linked to the Panama Papers involving the former Lima mayor and others.
- Pending steps include a financial and accounting examination covering 2010–2018 with an expansion to 2021, plus testimony from two foreign and eight Peruvian witnesses.
- Prosecutors will request judicial assistance from the United States and Panama and evaluate whether three foreign‑based companies should be incorporated as corporate entities in the case.
- The probe focuses on alleged irregular handling of roughly one million soles tied to the Caja Municipal de Crédito Popular between 2012 and 2014.