Weekly Report - 26 November 2015 (WR-15-47)

No sooner did Peru’s former president Alan García (1985-1990; 2006-2011) win a legal battle to clear his name than he was hit with another judicial investigation. The judiciary last week annulled the charges against García made by a congressional ‘mega commission’ into a series of irregularities during his second government (2006-2011). The legal victory came just as he slipped into a distant fourth place in an opinion survey behind César Acuña. The public prosecutor’s office, however, has just opened a separate investigation into García for money laundering in his role as president of the Partido Aprista Peruano (PAP), and requested that Acuña’s bank secrecy be lifted for alleged asset laundering through ghost companies.

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