Overview
- The specialized organized-crime prosecutor’s office in Huánuco ordered the preliminary detention of spouses Cayetano Maylle and Carmela Flores on suspected criminal organization and money laundering.
- Seven properties in José Crespo y Castillo (Aucayacu) and Nuevo Progreso (Tocache) were searched, with two pickup trucks, a motorcycle, cash, and other evidentiary items seized.
- The case stems from a Dirandro checkpoint at Las Palmas where agents found S/41,500 and a backpack with USD 15,000, and forensic tests detected cocaine hydrochloride residues on the bills.
- The driver linked the seized funds to the detained couple, reinforcing prosecutors’ thesis of unjustified patrimonial growth tied to drug trafficking through assets and front companies.
- Authorities say the investigation remains active to map the network and identify accomplices, as national coordinator Jorge Chávez Cotrina underscores a sustained anti-laundering strategy.