Peruvian President Dina Boluarte is embroiled in a serious political scandal after it emerged that Peruvian authorities are investigating the purchase of several luxury watches, allegedly without explanation. The news was announced yesterday when prosecutors searched the political leader’s home and seized a Honda vehicle. The Public Ministry She had already opened preliminary proceedings to clarify the matter on March 18th.
Registration at Boluarte’s House and the Presidential Palace
The president was asked to testify last Wednesday by Peru’s deputy public prosecutor, Hernán Mendoza. and when Boluarte did not attend the meeting, authorities began searching the house and the presidential palace. It should be noted that authorities had to force entry to the house in the Suquillo district of Lima after receiving no response from residents. A day after this controversy, the leader seems to want to nip the controversy in the bud by submitting her statement to the prosecution.
“I am going to your office and requesting that my investigative statement be recorded immediately. in order to clarify the matter under investigation as quickly as possible“says the statement sent by the lawyers of the prosecutor’s office of the Latin American country. So far, Boluarte’s defense maintains that if the president had not come to testify beforehand, That’s because of the tight presidential agenda he faces.
The government considers the register to be “unconstitutional”
Boluarte has the support of his cabinet. Gustavo Adriazen, The Prime Minister, together with other members of the Executive and the President’s Counsel, reiterated that the registration is a disproportionate and illegal measure: “What they are doing is politicization and shows that the judiciary has been politicized in an unprecedented event that attacks democratic institutions .” the presidency and above allwhich proves the collapse of the democratic system and constitutionality“said the Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Eduardo Arana.
The executive has taken over the speech of Boluarte, who claims to be the victim of a campaign of harassment promoted by the media for months. has stated that he would only make statements to the prosecutor’s office and that he would leave the government in 2026 “with clean hands.”
Members of Congress were divided
As could not be otherwise, this controversy has divided the Peruvian Congress: Free Peru, a Marxist party of which Boluarte was a member, submitted to Congress a motion for dismissal that has not yet been adopted the signatures of 26 of the 130 parliamentarians who represent the Peruvian people. However, conservative forces People’s Power, People’s Renewal or Somos Perú have positioned themselves in favor of Boluarte and defined the register as a “mere spectacle” or an “abuse of power”.