LIMA -- The Appeals Chamber will revaluate Tuesday the former Peruvian first lady Nadine Heredia’s rejected request to keep monthly tabs on her from Geneva -- at her new FAO liaison office base -- instead of in Peru, judicial sources said.

 The re-evaluative hearing in the Appeals Chamber is to be held Tuesday at 11 a.m., where judicial powers will assess the previously failed request put forward by Nadine’s legal defence for her to be able to sign the biometric check register every 30 days in the Peruvian consulate in Switzerland while working for the Food and Agriculture Organization, instead of having to be present monthly in Peru.

 The ex-first lady, being investigated for alleged abuse of office and money laundering, said she would hold off her new duties as head of the UN agency’s liaison office, based in Geneva, until she had resolved her legal troubles in Peru -- however, despite remaining silent in an interrogation Wednesday by the Peruvian congressional committee, she seems keen to get this particular legal request approved in a hurry.

 The Appeals Chamber, made up of the judges César Sahuanay Calsín, Iván Quispe Aucca and Jessica León Yarango, will evaluate the request made on Nov. 25 by Ms Heredia’s lawyer Eduardo Roy Gates, after the Preliminary Hearings Judge Richard Concepción Carhuancho ordered that Nadine registered her signature every 30 days.

 As she has now been controversially appointed the role as head of the FAO’S liaison office in Geneva, Nadine Heredia asked to register her signature with the Peruvian consulate in the Swiss city.

 However, when the former president’s wife left Peru for Italy in November to coordinate her appointment with the FAO, judge Concepción refused her request and ordered her back to Peru with a 10-day time limit.

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