Overview
- The government submitted a request to Congress for delegated legislative powers to carry out an “absolute reorganization” of the national penitentiary service (INPE).
- The Interior and Defense ministries are weighing the withdrawal of confidence from INPE president Iván Paredes and other officials under probe; no dismissal has been finalized.
- Paredes is being investigated by the Lima Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office over alleged bribe-taking, and he has publicly denied the authenticity of leaked audios.
- Authorities reported coordinated interventions in Lima and Callao prisons that disrupted illegal communications, including the removal of antennas used by extortion networks.
- Recent operations included a sweep at the Chorrillos women’s prison led by Paredes that seized phones, SIM cards, notebooks, more than 50 watches and sharp objects, and a Fiscalía-supervised search at Ancón II that confiscated tools, an electrical resistor, casino materials and 55 CDs under the ongoing state of emergency.