Overview
- Interim Attorney General Tomás Gálvez said the formal resolution dissolving the special teams will be issued on January 6, the Día de la Bajada de Reyes.
- He stated the institutional decision was taken on December 19 and that only administrative formalization remains before publication.
- The units targeted include the teams for Lava Jato, Los Cuellos Blancos del Puerto and Eficcop, which Gálvez claims failed to deliver results and fostered “cover‑up and impunity.”
- Gálvez said cases will be reassigned to specialized prosecutor offices; reporting indicates Lava Jato files would go to the money‑laundering subsystem under Germán Juárez Atoche and Cuellos Blancos to the corruption‑of‑officials subsystem led by Omar Tello.
- Legal experts and some politicians warned that dismantling the teams could damage ongoing high‑profile probes and stressed that the Junta de Fiscales Supremos and formal procedures still matter.