Weekly Report - 20 December 2018 (WR-18-50)

Corruption cases implicating prominent Peruvian officials past and present continue to come thick and fast. On 20 December a local court is expected to accept a request by Peru’s attorney general’s office to place the former president of the Federación Peruana de Fútbol (FPF), Edwin Oviedo, in preventive detention for 36 months. This while Oviedo is investigated for links to the disgraced former supreme court justice César Hinostroza, who is at the centre of the judicial corruption network Cuellos Blancos del Puerto uncovered in July. Oviedo was already ordered to be placed in preventive detention for 18 months last week in connection with a different case.

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