Gustavo Andrés GORRITI ELLENBOGEN

On 27 March 2024, Lima prosecutor Alcides Chinchay opened an investigation against prominent journalist and writer Gustavo Gorriti, founder and editor-in-chief of IDL-Reporteros, for alleged bribery and requested that he reveal his journalistic sources, according to a statement from the Peruvian Public Prosecutor's Office. According to the indictment, the prosecution was seeking to determine whether Gorriti, in his reporting on corruption for IDL-Reporteros, promoted the work of two public prosecutors in exchange for information about their investigations into political corruption; the indictment and the ongoing investigation against Gorriti states that he does not have the right to anonymity of his sources and that he should provide the prosecution with identifying data such as the telephone numbers he used between 2016 and 2021. Gorriti is accused of having influenced the investigation against former presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori, whose trial for money laundering was scheduled to begin on 1 July 2024. 

Over the past four decades, Gustavo Gorriti's journalistic writing has exposed cases of corruption at various levels of the Peruvian political and judicial system. Gustavo Gorriti (San Isidro, 4 de febrero de 1948) is author of several books such as Sendero (Path), La Calavera en negro (The Skull in Black), and La Batalla (The Battle).