Overview
- Four resolutions published January 6 in El Peruano, signed solely by Tomás Gálvez, deactivate the Lava Jato, Los Cuellos Blancos del Puerto, Eficcop and Eficavip teams.
- All case files are being reassigned: Lava Jato to the money‑laundering subsystem, Cuellos Blancos and Eficcop to the anti‑corruption subsystem, and Eficavip to the human rights and counterterrorism coordination.
- The Lava Jato unit transfers 97 case files, including 71 in preparatory or trial stages, to offices now led by former team member Germán Juárez Atoche.
- Key prosecutors lose their posts on these cases: coordinator Rafael Vela is removed from Lava Jato and José Domingo Pérez is left outside the reassigned Odebrecht investigations, while most others are relocated.
- Gálvez defended the timing as symbolic on the Day of the Bajada de Reyes and cited poor results, as critics warn of weakened prosecutions and note that Cuellos Blancos had investigated him.