Enrique Vílchez Vílchez, general secretary of the Presidential Office and member of the president’s most trusted circle Dina Boluartewas cited last October 2 by the Oversight Commission of the Congress of the Republic. In this appearance, Vílchez will have to account for the use of the presidential vehicle, popularly known as “the chest.”
Vílchez is 50 years old and is the official who last week signed a resolution declaring the ‘Security Plan for the Government Palace and related premises’ as “reserved.” Plan containing information about the presidential vehicle that transports Dina Boluarte in their official and private activities. Therefore, any information requested by the press about the vehicle was left unanswered.
This document declared confidential occurs among all the doubts that exist about the trajectory of the ‘chest‘ in February of this year for the condominium Mykonosan issue for which the president does not explain who she went to visit in that area, since coincidentally, a month before her stay, an operation had been carried out by the Ministry of the Interior to capture the fugitive former governor of Junín, Vladimir Cerronwho has been escaping justice for more than a year.
Who in Enrique Vílchez?
Enrique Vílchez Vílchez is a lawyer from the PUCP and has a master’s degree in Public Management from the Universidad del Pacífico. According to the information on the State platform, Vílchez is a specialist in public management, state contracting and arbitration.
According to the Political Organization Registry, he was affiliated with the now defunct Independent Moralizing Front, between 2005 and 2007. His career in the State began in 2008, at which time he worked for the National Environmental Council as a legal advisor. Until 2016 he was an advisor to Teófilo Gamarra of Gana Perú. In 2017 he was head of the Legal Advisory Office and general secretary of the National Training Service for the Construction Industry (Sencico), an organization attached to the Ministry of Housing and it is at that time that he began ties with the Boluarte family, specifically with Nicanor, brother of the president, who served as general manager of Sencico.
He was also an advisor to the Social Inclusion Commission and legal consultant to Agroideas, and in August 2021, no less than Dina Boluarte appointed him secretary general of midis. This appointment occurred just two days after the management of Castle as president and that Dina was head of the Ministry of Development. And when Boluarte became president, she gave her the position of Secretary of the Presidential Office.
Dina Boluarte: ‘Cofre’ driver, Félix Montalvo, is separated from the president’s security and PNP justifies the change
The non-commissioned officer of the National Police of Peru (PNP), Felix Montalvo Guevarawho served as driver of the vehicle assigned to the president Dina Boluartehas been removed from the presidential escort, as confirmed by official sources. The measure comes a few days after Montalvo gave his testimony to the Public Ministry about a trip in which he took the president to the Asia district, in Cañete. His statement was later corroborated by his lawyer, Jesús Poma.
According to the information available, Montalvo He was removed from his role in the presidential security team on Thursday, October 24, although he will continue to serve on the State Security Team. Following the decision, the PNP issued a statement explaining that this reassignment follows its security protocols, with the aim of preserving the integrity of the president. Boluartegiven that their close environment requires high levels of confidentiality due to the nature of their functions.
The statement of the PNP It was also specified that when a member of the presidential escort sees their personal or professional life exposed, it may represent a risk to their protection functions. For this reason, it was decided to relocate Montalvo to a specialized unit within the PNP, where he will continue to perform security-related tasks, but in a safer context and appropriate to the institution’s protocols.
