Overview
- Judge Richard Concepción Carhuancho ordered a definitive archive of the 2011 Odebrecht–Westfield case against ex‑president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski after finding no act to hide the money’s origin.
- The court said the questioned transfers moved through formal banks, including JP Morgan and Scotiabank, which allowed investigators to track the funds and failed to meet Peru’s laundering standard of obstructed traceability.
- The ruling applied the Supreme Court’s Susana de la Puente precedent on money‑laundering, and the judge cited predictability and legal certainty in shifting his earlier view on alleged criminal association.
- Kuczynski welcomed the decision yet still faces separate high‑profile proceedings tied to Westfield consultancies and the Interoceanic highway project known as IIRSA Norte.
- Separately, new reporting and fiscal filings show vouchers of deposits by Juntos por el Perú candidates into an account under Roberto Sánchez’s brother, as prosecutors accuse Sánchez of false statements on party income and seek five years and four months in prison with a ban from party roles, with a new statement set for May 27.