Overview
- Four resolutions published on January 6 in the official gazette El Peruano, signed solely by interim prosecutor general Tomás Gálvez, disband the teams for Lava Jato, Los Cuellos Blancos del Puerto, Eficcop and Eficavip.
- The Lava Jato unit is shut down with its 97 case files sent to the Specialized Money Laundering subsystem under Germán Juárez Atoche, as coordinator Rafael Vela is removed and prosecutor José Domingo Pérez is left out of the reassignment.
- The Cuellos Blancos team is folded into the national coordination of anti‑corruption prosecutors, and coordinator Alfonso Barrenechea is reassigned, even though that unit had been investigating Gálvez himself.
- Eficcop is integrated into the Supraprovincial Corporate Specialized Anti‑Corruption Prosecutor’s Office and Eficavip is absorbed by the Human Rights and Counterterrorism coordination, ending the designations of their coordinators.
- Gálvez defends the overhaul as an efficiency measure after “lack of results,” timing the move for Bajada de Reyes, while prosecutors and human‑rights groups caution that victims’ rights and active trials could be set back by the transfers.