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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 13 April 2017

PERU: Combating regional corruption

Over the last week, Peruvian police have arrested two local mayors as part of two separate anti-corruption investigations. Federal prosecutor Hamilton Castro has put Félix Moreno, governor of the centre-west region of Callao and Richard Ramos Ávalos, the mayor of Chilca in the Lima province of Cañete, under preventative arrest for the next 18 months. Another 12 municipal governors have also been named in corruption probes.

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