LIMA – The president of Peru, Dina Boluarte appeared this Tuesday before prosecutors investigating her for the deactivation of the police unit that raided her home in the Rolexgate case, in a new case opened for the alleged crime of abuse of authority.
The diligence passed in reserve for almost three hours in the prosecutor’s office in Lima, after which Boluarte left under police custody.
The prosecution is preliminarily investigating Boluarte for alleged abuse of authority and personal cover-up, as an instigator from the top of power.
The president’s lawyer, Juan Carlos Portugal, indicated that his client answered 50 questions to four prosecutors.
“The president answered absolutely everything, despite the fact that many questions from the Public Ministry were highly misleading and suggestive,” he said.
The investigation includes former Interior Minister Walter Ortiz, accused of having committed the crime against the administration of justice for ordering on May 9 the cancellation of the special police team that supports the prosecution in anti-corruption operations against senior officials.
The government justified the action by claiming that there was another police division that could fulfill that function.
Last November, the prosecutor’s office denounced her for the alleged crime of homicide, as responsible for the repression of the protests that left more than 50 deaths after she came to power on December 7, 2022.
Dina Boluarte can only be brought to trial at the end of her term, in July 2026, as established by the Constitution.
“Unfounded”
For his part, the Prime Minister of Peru, Gustavo Adrianzén, classified as “inadmissible” the constitutional complaint presented by the Andean prosecutor’s office against the country’s president.
Adrianzén assures that the Public Ministry “looks for crimes where they do not exist” and assured that there is an undue “systematic persecution in fiscal matters” against the president Dina Boluarte.
Peru has had six leaders in just eight years, in the midst of the worst wave of instability in its modern history.
Source: AFP/EUROPE PRESS
