The Special Team of the Lava Jato case presented a formal accusation against the former president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard before the Judiciary for the IIRSA Norte case, in which the former president is accused of alleged crimes linked to the awarding of the road work of the Northern Amazon Multimodal Axis Project (IIRSA Norte).
The Prosecutor’s Office has requested sentences exceeding eight and a half years in prison for former President Kuczynski and another of the accused, José Ortiz, as part of this criminal accusation, in which he is attributed with the alleged commission of the crime of aggravated collusion to the detriment of the Peruvian State.
This process derives from an extensive preparatory investigation that began after the complaint filed by the Ad Hoc Prosecutor’s Office of the Lava Jato case, which identified alleged irregularities in the concession process of the IIRSA Norte project, a work that connects important regions in the north of the country.
According to prosecutors, the former president would have unduly favored the concessionaire that was part of the Brazilian company Odebrecht during his tenure as president of the Board of Directors of ProInversión, when the award of the work was evaluated and confirmed.
The Public Ministry bases its accusation on the alleged impact on State assets and the violation of the principles of impartiality and legality in public procurement, by supposedly directing key decisions of the ProInversión Committee in favor of a specific business group.
The IIRSA Norte case is part of the multiple processes that the Lava Jato Special Team has followed for alleged acts of corruption related to the construction company Odebrecht and other infrastructure projects, in which various senior and former public sector officials are being investigated.
Procedural progress and context
The criminal process against the former president has been progressing in the national judicial system. In April 2025, the Permanent Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court rejected an appeal presented by Kuczynski’s defense to declare the crime of collusion time-barred, a decision that allowed the tax accusation to remain valid and the corresponding judicial process to continue.
The IIRSA Norte case is a central piece of the extensive investigative framework developed by the Public Ministry within the framework of the corruption scandal known as Lava Jato in Peru, which has implicated several former officials and former leaders for alleged acts of collusion, money laundering, criminal organization and other related crimes.
To date, the process is in the control stage of the accusation before the Judiciary, and the Prosecutor’s Office has requested that the charges be brought to oral trial for eventual sentencing, in accordance with due process.
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