Overview
- The Segunda Sala de Apelaciones of the Corte Superior Nacional scheduled a virtual hearing for Thursday, May 28 at 10:00 a.m. to rule on the Fiscalía's appeal of the January archive order.
- The Fiscalía asks the court to annul the archive that closed the investigation so the latest accusation demanding 35 years in prison against Keiko Fujimori can resume in the judicial process.
- The archive was issued after an October Tribunal Constitucional ruling that found the investigated facts did not constitute a crime and led a first-instance judge to close the case in January.
- The appeal was filed in January after prosecutor José Domingo Pérez was removed from the probe, and Fujimori's defense has said it supports keeping the archive and will defend that position at the hearing.
- If judges overturn the archive the case could return to evidentiary review and possible trial, which would affect the legal environment around Fujimori's campaign and could influence related electoral and judicial proceedings.