2024-03-30 13:31:15
(Lima) The home of Peruvian President Dina Boluarte was searched shortly after midnight on Saturday as part of an investigation into illicit enrichment, with the leader suspected of not having declared a collection of luxury watches as part of her assets.
Posted at 9:31 a.m.
Images broadcast by local television show investigators surrounding the president’s home located in Surquillo, a suburb of Lima, and forming a human barrier to prevent car traffic in the adjacent streets.
The police intervention was carried out at the request of the public prosecutor after the prosecution had rejected Ms. Boluarte’s request to present the luxury watches and the documents relating to their acquisition herself.
In the event of prosecution, the Peruvian president cannot, under the Constitution, be subjected to trial before July 2026, the date of the end of her mandate.
The Rolex scandal erupted after a local news site, La Encerrona, published a series of photos on March 15 showing Boluarte sporting different luxury watches while in government in 2021 and 2022.
After the report, Ms. Boluarte assured that she had “clean hands” and only owned a watch of a certain age, purchased with her savings. “I entered the Government Palace with clean hands and I will leave with clean hands, as I promised the Peruvian people,” she said.
PHOTO MARTIN MEJIA, ASSOCIATED PRESS
The president, aged 61, is already the subject of an investigation for “genocide, aggravated homicide and serious injury” after the death of more than 50 people during the two months of social unrest which accompanied her accession to the head of State.
Dina Boluarte became president after the impeachment and arrest of left-wing head of state Pedro Castillo, of whom she was vice president.
PHOTO CARLOS BARRIA, ARCHIVES REUTERS
Peruvian President Dina Boluarte
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