Overview
- The June 2008 customs and anti‑drug sweep at Jorge Chávez airport uncovered packages hidden inside a wooden bed bound for Amsterdam and listed Luis Landauro as the shipment sender.
- A Callao trial court convicted Landauro and sentenced him to eight years in April 2011 after finding his explanation—that he only measured the furniture—not credible.
- The Sala Penal Permanente of the Supreme Court granted a nullity remedy and acquitted Landauro in February 2012, ordering the annulment of his police and judicial records.
- Landauro was elected mayor of Ventanilla for Somos Perú and says the 2012 ruling confirmed his innocence and erased his antecedents, but media reports and opponents say the episode raises doubts about electoral legitimacy.
- A prominent campaign supporter, Bettly Herrera Limas, was arrested in 2021 accused of leading the criminal group 'las zetas de Ventanilla' and faces an appeal on aggravated homicide charges, which has intensified calls for clearer vetting and probes into local crime links.