Starting in the late 1980s, de Soto, with the support of Peru's then-president Alan Garca and his successor Alberto Fujimori, transformed his theory into action.
On November 21, 2006, Rafael Garca Torres, former Information Technologies Chief of the Administrative Department of Security (DAS) (Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad) was interrogated by the Supreme Court after being accused of accepting bribes from paramilitaries and narcotraffickers in exchange for erasing their criminal past from the state intelligence database.