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Peru seeks criminal charges over report on army
LIMA, Peru – Peru’s Defence Ministry is asking prosecutors to charge three journalists with “revealing national secrets” for a report suggesting corruption in the use of funds used for intelligence-gathering.
Defence Minister Jakke Valakivi told a news conference on Thursday that the report on the “Panorama” television program was based on secret documents.
The journalists interviewed people identified in the documents as receiving army funds who said they had never gotten any such money.
The Inter American Press Association has issued a statement calling the action against the journalists “an act of intimidation.”
The charges would carry a potential sentence of 15 years in jail.
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