Overview
- The Fiscalía Especializada en Delitos de Corrupción de Tacna and the Policía Nacional executed coordinated dawn raids on municipal offices and private homes, with authorities seizing paperwork, computers and storage devices as the operation continued on Tuesday, June 2, 2026.
- Local outlets reported between 13 and 14 properties were searched, including the municipal supply and treasury offices and residences of named officials and contractors, while prosecutors have given only limited public details about identities or specific findings.
- A judge from the Tercer Juzgado de Investigación Preparatoria, Sonia Carolina Marín Valdivia, authorized the search orders, signaling the measures form part of a formal preparatory investigation rather than a concluded prosecution.
- The probe centers on alleged irregularities in a S/550,000 expansion of the third floor of the municipal Infrastructure and Works office, including claims that the contract was split into smaller amounts to avoid higher-threshold procurement procedures and that related firms may have been favored.
- Investigators are pursuing a possible charge of negociación incompatible, which in this context means public officials may have used their position to benefit connected contractors, and the next steps will include forensic review of seized records and digital evidence that could trigger criminal or administrative sanctions.