In June 2002, the National Prosecutor Nelly Calderón Navarro accused Pandolfi before Congress along with former ministers Jorge Baca Campodónico, Jorge Camet Dickmann and César Saucedo Sánchez for the crime of illicit association to commit a crime, illegal collusion, generic falsehood, embezzlement and corruption of officials to the detriment of the State.
In May 2003, the Congress of the Republic of Peru approved Legislative Resolution 015-2002-CR, in which Pandolfi was disqualified for 10 years along with former ministers Víctor Joy Way, Jorge Baca Campodónico, César Saucedo Sánchez, Julio Salazar Monroe and Carlos Bergamino Cruz.
In the same legislative resolution, Pandolfi was charged with the alleged commission of the crimes of Illicit Association to Delinquir, Illegal Collusion, Embezzlement and Ideological Falsehood.
[3] Despite being sanctioned by Congress with a disqualification from exercising public functions for 10 years since 2003, in 2007 he was appointed head of the Vulnerability Reduction Program against the Recurrent El Niño Event (Preven) by the APRA government .
In December 2012, Pandolfi was sentenced to four years in suspended prison together with the former government ministers of César Saucedo Sánchez and Jorge Baca Campodónico by the Special Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court for the crime of complicity in collusion for the irregular purchase of MIG aircraft 29.