Interview with Prosecutor Castro: Applying Peru’s Extinción de dominio law in international cases
Channel: Basel Institute on Governance
Date: 03/11/2021

Oscar Solórzano, Head of Latin America at the Basel Institute on Governance and Senior Asset Recovery Specialist at our International Centre for Asset Recovery, interviewed Dr Hamilton Castro Trigoso, Provincial Prosecutor of the First Provisional Provincial Prosecutor's Office for Extinción de dominio in Lima, on his experiences in investigating and enforcing asset confiscation judgements abroad.

Prosecutor Castro discusses the implications of a final judgement in an asset recovery case against former Army General Malca Villanueva, who collaborated with the criminal organisation led by Vladimiro Montesinos during the corrupt government of Alberto Fujimori.

For the English transcript and more details about the case, see: https://baselgovernance.org/blog/interview-applying-perus-non-conviction-based-forfeiture-law-international-cases

The video was produced in the context of the Basel Institute on Governance's technical and policy assistance programme in Peru, which is supported by the core donors of the International Centre for Asset Recovery as well as the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) Cooperation in Peru through the multi-year Subnational Strengthening Public Finance Management programme.