Peru justice minister resigns in scandal linked to first lady
Tue Oct 20, 2015 9:09pm BST
Peru justice minister resigns in scandal linked to first lady
LIMA
Peru's justice minister resigned on Tuesday amid a wave of criticism after the government of President Ollanta Humala dismissed a public prosecutor who had been probing a case linked to the first lady.
Gustavo Adrianzen said in a press conference that Humala had accepted his resignation, after lawmakers threatened to oust him from power with a congressional vote that would have risked embarrassing the government.
Lawmakers across the political divide criticized Humala's government, calling Julia Principe's sacking a politically motivated attack on the independence of public prosecutors.
Principe had been probing the authenticity of notebooks that opposition lawmakers said belonged to first lady Nadine Heredia and contained logs of suspicious payments.
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