Overview

• Lawyer Giovanna Vélez says Benavides reproduced her 2006 article almost verbatim in the thesis, identifying pages 83–111 as a near-total copy without citation.
• Vélez has filed a complaint with the Lima Bar Association, where the Ethics Committee is evaluating possible disciplinary action, and media report a prosecutorial inquiry is open.
• La Encerrona published the recovered document and a Turnitin analysis reported about 86% similarity, prompting renewed scrutiny of Benavides’s academic credential.
• According to Jaime Villanueva’s lawyer, TV host Andrés Hurtado delivered the thesis to Benavides in April 2023 via Supreme Prosecutor Miguel Vegas Vaccaro, allegedly seeking favors related to a money-laundering case.
• The same account says Villanueva ran the thesis through Turnitin, obtained the 86% result, and the team then chose not to release the document publicly, raising potential consequences for the degree and possible review by the JNJ if plagiarism is confirmed.