Death certificates of both officials appeared on the Internet platform of the National Registry of Identification and Civil Status (Reniec).

The media and political scandal broke out when the press reported that in the aforementioned registry, Segundo Alejandro Sánchez appeared as deceased by suicide, linked to the head of state and a fugitive with an arrest warrant for alleged corruption.

Opposition parliamentarians and media pointed out that it could be a government maneuver to hide the fugitive, which Justice Minister Félix Chero denied, noting that Reniec would be summoned for explanations.

The head of Reniec, Carmen Velarde, indicated this type of problem dates back to last month, for which she asked the Ministry of Health for a list of its personnel and of doctors who access the death registry to register death certificates.

According to Velarde, officials from that ministry asked her to wait until October 21, which she considered a lack of interest, so she took control measures against the misuse of access codes for various purposes.

The official announced that as of today Reniec has blocked Internet access to her registry of death certificates and reestablished the old practice of requiring printed certificates to register them.

The Minister of Health, Jorge López, said that the person in charge of registering deaths is Reniec and that its computer system is vulnerable, so it must be strengthened and assured that the system of the body in charge of it is one of those with the greatest protection. against intrusions into the country.

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