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AQ Top 5 Corruption Busters: José Ugaz

By Mitra Taj

The Peruvian "powerhouse" leading one of the world's biggest antigraft groups.

This article is adapted from our 1st print issue of 2016. For an overview of our Top 5 Corruption Busters, click here.

José Ugaz was just a few years out of law school in his native Peru when a client came to him with an unusual request: A judge was demanding $1,000 to settle a routine trespassing dispute, and the client wanted help paying him off.

Ugaz responded by orchestrating a police sting that jailed the judge. “We photocopied the bills and went to his...

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