LIMA.- The prosecutor’s office Peru urged the president In Boluarte to display Rolex watches in her possession, and she asked to make her statement to the authority as soon as possible, in the midst of the investigation for alleged illicit enrichment.
“The President of the Republic has been formally summoned to present the rolex watches and give the statement on Friday, April 5,” said the Public Ministry in a statement released this Sunday in the press.
In addition, he pointed out that in the proceedings, at dawn on Saturday in the private home and in the Government Palace, the valuable objects were not found nor did the president hand them over.
Although, he noted, “other elements of interest for the investigation were obtained.” Local media indicated that documents were found showing when one of the watches would have been obtained.
The prosecution is carrying out an investigation into alleged illicit enrichment, because Boluarte he would not have declared possession of the luxury watches within his assets. The investigations began on March 18.
“Immediately”
After the statement from the Prosecutor’s Office, the president sent a note to request that an investigative statement be taken “immediately, in order to clarify the facts under investigation as soon as possible.”
He argued, in the same note released by the office of lawyer Mateo Castañeda, that he does so in the face of “the political turbulence that has been occurring.”
He did not confirm whether he will carry or present the relojes Rolexobject of the investigation.
The watch scandal
The president’s defense stated on Saturday that the police found some watches during the operations at the Government Palace.
Lawyer Castañeda told the press that “there were approximately 10, within that number there were some nice watches, but I cannot say how many were Rolex brands.”
The president Boluarte He stated on Saturday that the prosecution’s action “is arbitrary, disproportionate and abusive.”
61 years old and in the presidency since December 2022, Boluarte stated that she is systematically attacked and that, therefore, “it is an attack on democracy and the state of government, generating political, social and economic instability.”
Saturday’s raids were authorized by the Supreme Preparatory Investigation Court, presided over by Supreme Judge Juan Carlos Checkley, at the request of the nation’s prosecutor.
If the prosecution accuses her of illicit enrichment, Boluarte He would only respond in a possible trial after July 2026 when his term ends, as established by the Constitution.
The scandal, however, could lead to a request for Boluarte’s vacancy (dismissal) from Congress alleging “moral incapacity.”
For this to happen, the right-wing groups that control the unicameral parliament and are the president’s main support will have to support the minority left-wing groups in an alliance that is, in theory, difficult to achieve.
On Saturday, 26 of the 130 congressmen from the left-wing bench, including that of the party to which Boluarte belonged, presented a “vacancy motion” against the president before the directives of parliament.
But for it to be brought to debate it must first be approved by fifty legislators next week.
In the time he has been in power, the parliamentary left presented two motions demanding Boluarte’s dismissal. None were admitted to debate by the right-wing majority in Congress.
Boluarte was vice president until she assumed the presidency on December 7, 2022 after Congress removed leftist President Pedro Castillo for his attempt to dissolve Parliament and govern by decree.
Source: With information from AFP
