Overview
- Anti-corruption police, which raided properties Friday, searched former ONPE chief Piero Corvetto’s home and sites tied to ballot transporter Gálaga in an investigation into alleged aggravated collusion.
- Officers seized phones, laptops and documents under a judge’s warrant, and the judge denied prosecutors’ request to place Corvetto in preliminary detention.
- Corvetto resigned Tuesday after ballot shortages and delivery failures on April 12 slowed the count and forced voting to continue into a second day in Lima.
- European Union observers reported serious shortcomings but no objective evidence of fraud, while candidate Rafael López Aliaga continued to allege fraud without providing proof.
- With about 95% of ballots counted, Keiko Fujimori leads near 17%, second place is a roughly 20,000‑vote race between Roberto Sánchez and López Aliaga, and officials plan to certify by May 15 for a June 7 runoff.