Walther Delgado
Deputy Head, Latin America ICAR / Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery (Green Corruption)
Walther Javier Delgado Tovar joined the Basel Institute on Governance in November 2021. As of 2024, he serves as Deputy Head, Latin America for our International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) as well as Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery working with the Basel Institute’s Green Corruption programme.
In this role, among other things, he supports prosecutors and specialised environmental prosecutors in Peru and Bolivia in implementing financial investigations in order to recover illicit assets. This includes through training, mentoring, legal technical assistance, case strategy design and international cooperation.
Walther has worked for 16 years as a criminal prosecutor, dedicating the last 10 years to the investigation and prosecution of highly complex national corruption cases committed by criminal organisations. He participated as Deputy Prosecutor in the oral trials against former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori for crimes of corruption of public officials and crimes against humanity. He was also involved in the successful prosecutions of several regional Peruvian heads of governments and mayors for crimes including illicit enrichment, money laundering and aggravated collusion, and succeeded in recovering significant quantities of assets in these cases.
Walther has wide-ranging expertise in special investigative procedures, such as effective collaboration, and was a member of the Steering Committee of the National Commission of Seized Assets, an entity in charge of the administration of seized and confiscated assets.
He has written several books on criminal matters, criminal procedure and Extinción de dominio (Peru’s non-conviction based forfeiture law), and more than a dozen articles in specialised journals. He has been heavily involved in the implementation of the extinción de dominio law in Peru, through his academic publications since 2009.
Walther holds a Bachelor of Law and a Master’s in Criminal Sciences, and has studied for a PhD in Law and Political Science from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru.
Publications
La extinción del dominio de bienes instrumentalizados
This publication (in Spanish) focuses on the use of non-conviction based forfeiture legislation in Peru (Extinción de Dominio) to recover instrumentalities of crime. It is a collaborative effort of asset recovery experts of the Basel Institute on Governance under the Programa GFP Subnacional or Subnational Public Finance Management Strengthening Programme in Peru, funded by the Swiss SECO Cooperation.
Introducción
El Programa de Fortalecimiento de la Gestión de Finanzas Públicas a nivel Subnacional en el Perú (2024-2028) busca fortalecer las capacidades de los funcionarios encargados del cumplimiento de la ley, especialmente aquellos que participan en los procesos de recuperación de activos en los niveles central y subnacional.
En los últimos años, la recuperación de activos ha ocupado un importante lugar en la política criminal peruana, especialmente mediante la dación del Decreto Legislativo 1373 - Decreto Legislativo sobre Extinción de Dominio, que incorpora al ordenamiento jurídico peruano un poderoso instrumento para contrarrestar el patrimonio criminal. La consolidación de esta herramienta precisa de conocimientos especializados en la materia, así como la correcta interpretación de las categorías y presupuestos de la extinción de dominio, en armonía con los principios del Estado Constitucional de Derecho que la alberga.
Con miras a la consecución de este objetivo, el Programa GFP Subnacional reconoce el importante rol de la doctrina jurídica como fuente mediata para aliviar los cuestionamientos que surgen en la aplicación de las leyes, y para orientar el conocimiento hacia la correcta adopción de decisiones. Por ello, esta publicación académica es un producto de conocimiento creado con la finalidad de servir como insumo teórico y práctico en la aplicación de la extinción de dominio.
En su primer número, con el fin de coadyuvar en el proceso de especialización de los operadores de justicia, esta publicación aborda diversas cuestiones jurídicas acerca de la recuperación, a través de la extinción de dominio, de los instrumentos empleados en la comisión de actividades ilícitas, dada su disposición para la lesión de bienes jurídicos protegidos por nuestro ordenamiento.
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