Overview
- Interim Attorney General Tomás Gálvez led the interview at the Government Palace, where the president answered about 30 questions from prosecutors and state attorneys.
- Gálvez said the president will file a written authorization and provide phone logs to enable access to his communications.
- The National Prosecutor’s Office is handling the case involving the president as an aforado, while provincial prosecutors investigate businessmen Zhihua Yang and Ji Wu Xiaodong.
- The inquiry examines unregistered encounters, including a Dec. 26 meeting in San Borja with Zhihua Yang and reported palace entries by Ji Wu Xiaodong, who is under house arrest in a separate timber case.
- Prosecutors are also scrutinizing Jerí’s Jan. 6 visit to Market Capón SAC shortly after its municipal closure to determine whether there was any irregular intervention.