Peru: Institutional Corruption and Illegal Fishing of Sharks within the ‘National Reserve of Paracas’ · Global Voices

The Comptroller General of the Republic of Peru found that, between January 2020 and July 2023, seven officials of the Ministry of Production (Produces) issued, in an irregular manner, 35 permits for the export, from Peru, of more than 24,000 kilos of shark fins, benefiting 4 companies. The control authority concluded that the public servants of the Vice Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture should be criminally denounced to the Public Ministry.…