Overview
- Peru’s attorney general opened a reserved preliminary investigation into José Jerí for alleged illegal sponsorship and possible influence peddling tied to off‑agenda meetings with Zhihua Yang.
- Prosecutors expanded the inquiry to include a second Yang meeting on January 6 and contacts involving Ji Wu Xiaodong, who faces separate probes for organized crime and illegal logging.
- Under constitutional limits, prosecutors may summon the sitting president at most twice before the case is paused until his term ends.
- Jerí sent formal letters placing himself at the disposal of the Attorney General’s Office and Congress’s Oversight Commission to provide statements.
- Lawmakers are gathering signatures for a vacancy motion and multiple censure initiatives, while Renovación Popular requested an extraordinary plenary for Jerí’s explanations and political figures split between removal calls and warnings against destabilization.