It was foreseeable that this was going to happen. The Judiciary definitively closed the Cocteles case – for alleged money laundering against Keiko Fujimori and 14 investigated—when executing the ruling of the Constitutional Court.
This is established by the resolution of the Tenth National Preparatory Investigation Court, which provides for the total closure of the criminal process followed by alleged money laundering against the presidential candidate of Fuerza Popular.
Extract from the resolution ordering the definitive filing of the case.
The judicial document states that “the definitive dismissal of the present proceedings against the investigated Keiko Sofía Fujimori Higuchi for the alleged commission of the crime of Money Laundering with the aggravating circumstance of Criminal Organization is declared”, leaving the tax accusation void.
The court also orders the cancellation of all restrictions imposed during the investigation. “Lift all types of personal and real measures that have been imposed on the aforementioned defendant,” states the resolution published by Keiko Fujimori’s lawyer, Giulliana Loza, on her X account.
The PJ definitively closed the case against Keiko Fujimori by executing the ruling of the Constitutional Court. There was no money laundering or criminal organization. The process ended because it lacked a legal basis and violated due process, in a clear fiscal persecution. pic.twitter.com/WRe0gTxk39
— Giulliana Loza (@GiullianaLoza) January 14, 2026
THE COCKTAILS CASE: TEN YEARS OF MEDIA TRIAL
The decision was a long time coming, but it was only a matter of time. In October of last year, almost ten years after the Prosecutor’s Office began the preliminary investigation, the Constitutional Court (TC) put an end to the so-called Cocktails case.
The TC annulled the investigation and tax accusation against Keiko Fujimori for the alleged irregular financing of her 2011 and 2016 electoral campaigns with Fuerza Popular.
The TC ruling ordered the immediate filing of the criminal file involving the FP presidential candidate and 14 others implicated in the crime of money laundering, determining that the investigation lacked legal basis and contravened the provisions of the Constitution.
In December, the hearing was held before Judge Wilson Verástegui, who evaluated the execution of the Constitutional Court’s ruling that annulled the investigation into alleged illicit campaign contributions.
Since then, the judicial decision has been awaited, which was finally announced this Tuesday, putting an end to a process that had lasted almost a decade.
This decision represented a harsh setback for the dissolved Lava Jato team led by prosecutor José Domingo Pérez, who has been suspended from office for this process.
The question is: what other cases would be filed with this filing?
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