The tentacles of Peru’s judicial scandal are spreading into different spheres of public life. The justice minister, Salvador Heresi, was compelled to tender his resignation this week after a fresh wave of leaked audio recordings broke. They revealed an inappropriate conversation he had held earlier this year with a judge at the centre of the uncovered influence-trafficking and corruption network. Several implicated senior judges have also stood down. Some light was shed, meanwhile, on the lack of enthusiasm displayed by congress to get to the bottom of the scandal, despite the urgings of President Martín Vizcarra, when it emerged that a spokesman for the dominant right-wing opposition Fuerza Popular (FP, Fujimoristas), Deputy Héctor Becerril, was embroiled in it.End of preview - This article contains approximately 1002 words.
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