He Judiciary holds the hearing for requesting preventive detention against Nicanor Boluarte, Mateo Castaneda and others involved in the case ‘Waykis in the shadow’The session is scheduled for 2:30 pm in the courtroom of the National Superior Court of Specialized Criminal Justice.
Judge Richard Concepción Carhuancho will be in charge of issuing the ruling. The hearing started about 10 minutes late. In addition to Boluarte and Castañeda, the measure was also requested against Jorge Luis Ortiz, Zenovia Griselda Herrera Vásquez, Jorge Chingay Salazar and Noriel Chingay Salazar.
The Team of Prosecutors against Corruption of Power (Eficcop) He requested 36 months of preventive detention arguing that the president’s brother would lead a criminal organization and his former lawyer, Matthew Castaneda would be the legal arm of the same.
On May 10, during the operation ‘Valkiria Jericó’ agents from Eficcop and the Diviac Nicanor Boluarte, Mateo Casteñeda and other alleged members of the criminal organization were arrested. However, on May 18, the Fifth National Appeals Chamber revoked the preliminary detention and both were released.
When questioned about the accusations against her brother, President Dina Boluarte reaffirmed that he was innocent and Nicanor even attended Congress as a guest during the address to the nation for Fiestas Patrias.
Victor Torres, friend of Dina and Nicanor Boluarte, welcomed the effective collaboration
Víctor Torres Merino, a childhood friend of Dina Boluarte and Nicanor Boluarte, has accepted effective collaboration, according to a fiscal document released by El Foco. In his statements, Torres Merino confirmed the thesis of the Prosecutor’s Office that maintains that the president’s brother had been appointing prefects and sub-prefects since 2021.
He was arrested, along with Nicanor Boluarte and Mateo Castañeda, on May 10 for the case of Los Waykis en la Sombra. After 10 days, the Prosecutor’s Office ordered his release.
In his statement to the Special Team of Prosecutors against Corruption in Power (Eficcop), Víctor Torres Merino confessed that Nicanor Boluarte favored him in his hiring as a service provider in the Qali Warma program, as well as in the National Program of Action Platforms for Social Inclusion Country, of the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion (Midis).
Waykis case in the shadows: Why is Dina Boluarte’s brother being investigated?
According to the prosecution’s theory, Nicanor Boluarte would have taken advantage of the ‘de facto power’ of his sister, President Boluarte, and used the prefectures of San Martín, Cajamarca and other departments to finance and achieve the constitution of the political party. Citizens for PeruThis political organization would be used in order to remain in power.
For his part, lawyer Mateo Castañeda was accused of being the legal arm of the organization and his role was to neutralize the investigations against Boluarte by offering benefits and protection in exchange for information.
According to the court ruling that authorized the preliminary detention of Nicanor Boluarte, the alleged criminal organization would have started operating as soon as Dina Boluarte assumed power after Pedro Castillo’s self-coup, in December 2022.
“In the present case, the criminal organization would have developed its criminal program immediately after Dina Ercilia Boluarte Zegarra assumed office as constitutional president of the Republic, that is, on December 7, 2023, since, after that, Wigberto Nicanor Boluarte Zegarrataking advantage of the de facto power granted to him by his sister, the President of the Republic, he would have initiated his criminal program,” the document reads.
