Overview
- Anti-corruption police and prosecutors intervened at the La Tarumba site in Arequipa and found roughly 28 to 30 soldiers dismantling the circus structures.
- Investigators reported the troops were in civilian clothes, using Army equipment and arriving in official vehicles, details they say suggest superior authorization.
- The Ministerio Público ordered reviews of vehicle logs, communications and displacement orders, and the soldiers remain under investigation at the anti-corruption directorate.
- Colonel Marco Antonio Quispe Astete and technician Justo Palomino Quispe were taken to anti-corruption authorities for further proceedings.
- La Tarumba says it never requested institutional military support, asserting a local producer, Mandarina Producciones, individually hired off‑duty voluntary-service soldiers as the Army’s Inspectorate pursues a disciplinary inquiry.