Chehade

Mr. Chehade initially received the support of Mr. Humala's Gana Peru party, but that backing dwindled as reports of another case of alleged influence peddling emerged.

Peru's New Leadership Faces First Corruption Test Matt Moffett 2011

The attorney general and two congressional committees are investigating Mr. Chehade, who denies any wrongdoing.

Peru's New Leadership Faces First Corruption Test Matt Moffett 2011

Opposition politicians, especially from ex-President Alan Garcia's Apra party, have loudly called for Mr. Chehade to resign.

Peru's New Leadership Faces First Corruption Test Matt Moffett 2011

"I have fought against corruption my whole life, and for human rights," Mr. Chehade said Wednesday in a presentation before the Congressional committee in charge of ethics.

Peru's New Leadership Faces First Corruption Test Matt Moffett 2011

Peruvian political analysts were predicting that Omar Chehade, the second of two vice presidents inaugurated with Mr. Humala in July, will eventually be forced out of office to limit the damage to Mr. Humala, who campaigned on an anti-corruption platform.

Peru's New Leadership Faces First Corruption Test Matt Moffett 2011

In years prior to joining the Humala administration, Mr. Chehade was a high-profile government anti-corruption prosecutor involved in the extradition from Chile of now-jailed ex-President Alberto Fujimori in 2007.

Peru's New Leadership Faces First Corruption Test Matt Moffett 2011

Jorge-Alonso Chehade recently graduated from the University of Washington with a business degree.

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It is way past time that I wrote about Jorge-Alonso Chehade.

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Julio Carrion, a political scientist at the University of Delaware, noted that the accusations against Mr. Chehade are relatively mild by Latin American standards of corruption, as there is no evidence so far that Mr. Chehade personally profited from his alleged lobbying efforts.

Peru's New Leadership Faces First Corruption Test Matt Moffett 2011

Mr. Chehade has been under a cloud of suspicion since a police general said last month that the vice president had called a meeting with him and two other senior police officials to push for the eviction of a group of workers who had seized control of a provincial sugar mill.

Peru's New Leadership Faces First Corruption Test Matt Moffett 2011