Decision was made after Peruvian authorities used Lava Jato evidence invalidated by Minister Dias Toffoli
A, linked to the, suspended legal cooperation with Peru in cases involving Odebrecht (current) in Operation Lava Jato. According to information from the newspaper, which had access to the document that is confidential, the decision was taken on Tuesday (7.MAI.2025) after the Peruvian authorities used declared invalid evidence by Minister Dias Toffoli, (Supreme Court).
The official document was signed by the National Secretary of Justice, Jean Uema. The suspension occurred preventively after Novoonor claims that Peru ignored the limitations to the use of evidence established under the commitment of cooperation agreements.
In the decision that suspended the agreements, the National Secretary of Justice stated that he waited for clarification from the Peruvian government for almost 1 year, but had no response.
The measure follows a similar understanding of (Attorney General’s Office), which, in April 2024, suspended cooperation agreements with the neighboring country for similar reasons.
The Ministry of Justice and the PGR founded their decisions on the invalidation of evidence obtained from the contractor’s leniency agreement ,. At the time, the minister characterized the operation as “A framework of a power project of certain public agents in its purpose of conquering the state by seemingly legal means”.
According to PGR, the decision for the suspension was made “After the reasons for improper use of evidence provided by Brazilian court collaborators against them in the Peruvian jurisdiction, breach of cooperation treaty clause..
The Peruvian Public Prosecution Service said it sent a reply “About some irregular documents in Brazil, […] But it has not yet received response from the Brazilian authorities. What was sent from Peru has not yet been analyzed by Brazil ”.
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The suspension directly affects Peru, a country with the largest number of politicians investigated, indicted or convicted of crimes related to Lava Jato. Among those affected are former presidents Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006), Ollantanta Humala (2011-2016) and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016-2018), accused of cash crimes 2 in election campaigns. They deny having committed any illegalities.
In 2019, former President Alan García (1985-1990 and 2006-2011) to avoid pre-trial detention in a process related to Lava Jato in the country.
Nadine Heredia, wife of former President Humala, after being sentenced to 15 years in prison in April 2025. Now the (National Refugee Committee) will decide whether to grant her refugee status.
Lawyers Leonardo Massud and Marco Aurélio de Carvalho, who represent heredia in their request for refuge in Brazil, celebrated the decisions of the Ministry of Justice and the PGR. In a note sent to this Poder360they stated that the suspension “It seems to end a series of irregularities that the Public Prosecution Service and Peruvian justice have committed throughout the legal cooperation with Brazil under Operation Lava Jato ”.
Novoonor moves an arbitration against the Peruvian state in London. The company claims an indemnity of approximately US $ 1 billion for investments made in the pipeline work. The project even had 30% of the works carried out by the Brazilian company. The assets, mainly ducts, were expropriated by the Peruvian government in 2017.
When consulted on the arbitral process in London, the agency stated that “It cannot make any statement in this regard due to the fact that international arbitration is confidential”.
Read the full note of lawyers Leonardo Massud and Marco Aurélio de Carvalho:
“The decision of the National Secretariat of Justice seems to end a series of irregularities that the Public Prosecution Service and Peruvian justice committed throughout the legal cooperation with Brazil under Operation Lava Jato. There were numerous episodes in which the Peruvian organs were missing with the commitments they themselves made with the whistleblowers, but it was not just that.
“For astonishment and perplexity of those who follow the processes in Peru, decisions of annulment of evidence obtained through the company’s systems were simply ignored.
“Even more serious is the fact that Peruvian justice has then held hearings with people in Brazil, for conferencing, without the participation and intervention of Brazilian justice. Hearings held in Peruvian consulates, in a blatant violation of national sovereignty. In addition to the cancellation of international cooperation, it is essential to warn the Peruvian diplomatic representation that acts thus usurp powers of our republic and will not be tolerated.
“We reiterate that Nadine Heredia and Ollanta Humala are innocent and were victims of an unfair condemnation without a single proof.
“It is also important to say that the couple was not accused of corruption, but by an alleged electoral illicit bastard by the word, and only by the word, of a single whistleblower, and is already the subject of doubts in Peru himself.
We continue convinced that at the end of this process the truth will be re -established. ”
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