Overview

• Provisional Supreme Judge Juan Carlos Checkley issued an October 7 resolution, after a sua sponte review, concluding the detention remains appropriate and that no less restrictive measure is justified.
• The ruling declares the 18-month preventive detention imposed on October 2, 2024, to be in effect.
• Andrés Hurtado remains held at the Lurigancho prison as a result of the decision.
• The Supreme Prosecutor’s Office is investigating alleged influence peddling and specific active bribery, including an alleged payoff linked to businessman Javier Miu Lei to recover gold seized in 2020.
• The case also covers alleged irregularities in a 2019 migration procedure involving footballer Roberto Siucho, following a separate September 18 order by a lower court that had directed Hurtado’s release after a nine-month term expired.