The Prosecutor's Office of Peru has requested the preventive detention of the until now maximum head of the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE), Piero Corvetto, who presented his resignation this Tuesday after the irregularities detected during the electoral event of last April 12.
"We have concluded, for the moment, that Piero Corvetto's conduct is malicious. Therefore, the Police report has been requested so that the Prosecutor's Office may require the Judiciary to detain him," declared the Attorney General of Peru, Tomás Gálvez, in an interview granted to the newspaper 'El Comercio'.
Magistrate Raúl Martínez made the request on Tuesday night, during Corvetto's appearance, considering that the former head of the main Peruvian electoral body since 2020 would have incurred in "illegal collusion, electoral crimes, and dereliction of duty" within the framework of the electoral process held on April 12.
It is still to be determined that the competent judge sets and communicates the date of the hearing in which it will be analyzed whether to order Corvetto's pre-trial detention. "That is up to the judge, who must rule as soon as possible," Gálvez has stated in this regard.
Corvetto declared before the authorities on Tuesday night and, simultaneously, handed over his Italian and Peruvian passports. A few hours earlier, he had formalized his resignation from the position alleging "technical operational problems" recorded during the elections, which were forced to be extended an additional day after some 60,000 citizens were left without voting due to the closure of several polling stations or the absence of voting material at other locations.