Overview
- Congress’s Oversight Commission scheduled Jerí to testify on Wednesday about two off‑record encounters with businessman Zhihua Yang and the reported palace entries of Ji Wu Xiaodong.
- The Public Prosecutor’s Office opened a preliminary case for alleged influence peddling and illegal sponsorship, and an anticorruption unit ordered retrieval of municipal and private camera recordings in Lima and San Borja.
- Acting congressional leader Fernando Rospigliosi declined to call an extraordinary plenary, warning the push seeks to trigger a vacancy process, while Acción Popular convened party bodies on possible vacancia or censure and Fuerza Popular said it will wait for Jerí’s explanations.
- A third video broadcast shows the president inside Yang’s Market Capón on January 6, the day municipal authorities had closed the shop, with images of staff, bags and a close aide accompanying him.
- Jerí denied wrongdoing, ruled out resigning, rejected having called Indecopi to benefit the store, said the meetings related to the Peru–China friendship celebration, and pledged cooperation with Congress and the Fiscalía.