Overview
- Argentina’s security minister said seven inmates ran an extortion scheme that targeted 21-year-old soldier Rodrigo Gómez before his December suicide, detailing fake dating profiles, staged threat audios and money routed through third‑party accounts.
- Investigators executed searches in Buenos Aires prisons and homes tied to units in Magdalena and Olmos, made arrests and launched digital and financial tracing to map the operation’s collaborators and cash flows.
- Chief of staff Manuel Adorni announced President Javier Milei canceled a United States trip and will join the opening of Donald Trump’s Board of Peace remotely, with minister Federico Sturzenegger attending in person.
- In Madrid, testimony by Santos Cerdán and Antonio Hernando described meetings about Villarejo‑origin material on businesses linked to the president’s father‑in‑law, as the judge flagged possible links with the secret UCO-led SEPI probe.
- Peru’s oversight body JNJ opened a preliminary investigation into Judge Richard Concepción Carhuancho over handling of an appeal in the ‘Waykis en la sombra’ case, and the MIMP ordered a summary intervention of the shelter run by congresswoman Milagros Jáuregui to verify compliance with protection standards.