Critics say “excessive” practice threatens legitimacy of important anti-corruption investigation.
By Simeon Tegel April 20 at 7:00 AM LIMA, Peru — It’s impossible to know why Alan García killed himself this week.
“It is increasingly difficult to justify,” said Ignazio de Ferrari, a political scientist at Lima’s University of the Pacific. Critics question the courts’ acceptance of the often limited arguments presented by prosecutors for locking up high-profile suspects before they have been indicted. They warn that the tactic could threaten the legitimacy of Peru’s landmark investigation.Odebrecht, Latin America’s largest construction company, has admitted to paying nearly $1 billion in bribes across the region to secure public contracts.
De Ferrari didn’t wish to defend García, but he called the use of pretrial detention “excessive.” Diego García Sayán, a former justice minister and judge on the inter-American Court of Human Rights, wants to see prosecutors adopt a “more selective criterion” for requesting detention. If García Sayán is overstating the numbers, it’s not by much. More than 39 percent of the Peruvian prison population is being held in pretrial detention or remand, according to the Institute for Criminal Policy Research in London. That’s nearly double the U.S. rate.Peru does have a long tradition of politicians going on the lam to avoid justice.
“You also have to see this in the context of the absolute certainty of many Peruvians that these politicians have been up to their necks in corruption.”
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