Overview
- Supreme Judge Juan Carlos Checkley scheduled a virtual hearing for November 17 at 9:30 a.m. to evaluate the Procuraduría General del Estado’s request to be admitted as a civil party.
- Francisco Sagasti has been formally summoned to the session, and former interior ministers Rubén Vargas and José Elice are under the same preparatory investigation.
- Sagasti’s defense filed an opposition on October 27 to block the Procuraduría’s incorporation, prompting the court to convene the hearing.
- Acceptance of the Procuraduría’s request would allow the State to seek potential civil damages if responsibility is later established.
- The case stems from November 2020 supreme resolutions that led to the retirement of 18 senior police officers after César Cervantes was named commander general, a matter now under a preparatory investigation opened following an April 2025 congressional vote.