Drug barons from Serbia, Brazil, Peru, and Mexico plotted a would-be escape from a maximum security prison using heavy weapons and a helicopter, a secret Peruvian police report shows.

Peruviananti-drug police seized more than 57 kilograms of cocaine wrapped in packages that were labeled with the Nazi German flag and had the name “Hitler” printed in low relief. The shipment was discovered in the northern port of Paita and was on its way to Belgium.

The United States has extradited Alejandro Toledo, Peru’s former president, who will now face trial in his home country for bribery related to the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.

Peruvian police have dismantled a cell of the Venezuelan criminal group Tren de Aragua and arrested 61 of its members who were reportedly involved in extortion and loan sharking, including the collection of fees from prostitutes working in various parts of Peru’s capital.

The U.S. State Department has approved the extradition of former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo who is in his home country suspected of bribery linked to a corruption scandal involving Brazilian-based construction company Odebrecht S.A., Peru’s attorney general’s office said on Tuesday.

The Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office said it requested a 15-year prison sentence for former President Martín Vizcarra for allegedly receiving bribes at the time he served as the governor of the Moquegua region in southern Peru.

President Pedro Castillo of Peruattempted to dissolve his country’s legislature on Thursday, but within hours Peruvian lawmakers removed him from office and he was jailed by police.

Bolivian-based importers are feeding illegal mining operations in Peru with mercury, according to a recent report by OjoPúblico - a non-profit investigative journalism center and a partner organization of the OCCRP.

Peru’s Congress voted on Wednesday to accept charges filed by the country’s top prosecutor against President Pedro Castillo who is accused of leading a criminal organization after evidence of influence-peddling and acts of collusion were found.

Just days after Peruvian lawmakers accused top prosecutor Patricia Benavides of belonging to a criminal organization, she filed an official accusation with the Congress against sitting President Pedro Castillo, demanding an investigation into potential graft in public works.

Prosecutors in Peru asked a court to prevent the First Lady Lilia Paredes from leaving the country for at least three years since she is under investigation for organized crime and money laundering.

For decades, Carlos Sein Atachahua allegedly led a global money laundering empire. Police say his gang’s drugs, sent with logos depicting ancient Peruvian symbols, reached Italy’s ‘Ndrangheta and other criminal groups, while corrupted money-exchange houses around the world were allegedly used to launder profits.

Peruvian authorities arrested a prosecutor for allegedly having requested between US$5,000 and 30,000 in exchange for not pursuing criminal charges against outlaws in Peru.

Peruvian police arrested a former government official suspected of being part of a group that illegally sold driver’s licenses to collect money for the ruling party. The operation raised suspicions about official party links to corruption.

The corruption trial of former Peruvian President Ollanta Humala Tasso and his wife began on Monday, with the prosecutor arguing that the couple received millions of dollars in bribes from the Venezuelan government and the graft-ridden Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.

Peruvian authorities arrested nine suspected members of a crime group believed to have trafficked explosives to illegal mining operations.

Peruvian presidential election candidate Keiko Fujimori, who is on trial for corruption and money laundering, still remains out of state custody after surviving a prosecutor’s failed attempted to return her to jail.

A court in Lima on Mondaysentenced Zoran Jakšić, a Serbian national and leading member of the international drug-trafficking organization, Group America, to 25 years in prison  — for the second time.

One of the highest ranking members of Group America, a prolific US-Serbian drug gang, may soon be set free from his prison cell in Peru after a criminal court of appeals ruled that he was denied due process, local media reported on Friday. 

Dutch police arrested a native Bosnian and his Dutch wife last week for laundering money, which investigators suspect is coming from his gang’s massive cocaine transfers from Latin America to Europe.