In two years in The presidency of the Republic, Dina Boluarte, has accumulated eight investigations against her for alleged crimes such as homicide, serious injuries, illicit enrichment, bribery and abandonment of office.
Before him Public Ministry begin the investigation against him for alleged abandonment of the presidential position, his lawyer Juan Carlos Portugal told Latina that his client has seven investigations against him.
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The surgery and his alleged absence from presidential office
The investigation into alleged abandonment of presidential office begins a week after the former premier Alberto Otarola told the Congressional Oversight Commission that in June of last year The president was absent for several days due to surgery on her nose.
The Government has not been able to deny that information. In it Congressthe opposition considered that the fact of not having reported this intervention and not having left anyone in charge of the presidency constitutes an alleged abandonment of the position.
The Public Ministry will investigate whether he committed omission of functions And for that, she will request from the Government Palace all the information about the health care that the president has had since she took office, in which establishments and with which doctors.
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The Rolexgate case and alleged illicit enrichment
The second and third case is for the rolexgate and alleged illicit enrichment of the president.
In May of this year, the then National Prosecutor, Juan Villena, ordered to separate the investigations, one for improper passive bribery because Boluarte did not declare the watches and jewelry he uses, and another for illicit enrichment.
He Rolexgate case advanced and that is why Villena filed a constitutional complaint for bribery against Boluarte. Last Thursday, the Permanent Commission approved with 22 votes in favor to process this accusation.
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While, regarding the case of illicit enrichment, the investigation still continues due to the alleged imbalance in the president’s bank accounts and the origin of the deposits made between July 2021 and August 2022.
Deaths in protests
The fourth investigation is into the deaths that occurred in the repression of the protests against this Government. Prosecutor Villena also filed a constitutional complaint charging Boluarte with alleged homicide and serious injuries.
The Permanent Commission, with some differences between the benches, approved with 13 votes to process said constitutional complaint. With this, this investigation enters its final stage in the parliamentary jurisdiction.
Like the Rolexgate case, now the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations of Congress I delegated to two congressmen the preparation of the reports to accuse Boluarte for these cases.
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Presidential chest
The fifth inquiry against Dina Boluarte it is because the use of the presidential vehicle, known as the “cofre”, and its alleged connection with the escape of the leader of Peru Libre, Vladimir Cerrónwho for a year has not been able to be captured by this Government.
Boluarte went to the Mikonos condominium, in Asia, on February 24, a month after the Police carried out an operation there looking for Cerrón. According to the testimony of Petty Officer Felix Montalvorevealed in Cuarto Poder, the president took a relative in the “chest” that day.
Secret meeting with Patricia Benavides
The sixth investigation is due to the fact that, according to the testimony of the former advisor to the Public Ministry, Jaime Villanuevathe The president would have met secretly with the former Attorney General, Patricia Benavides.
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Villanueva declared to Cuarto Poder that Boluarte and Benavides exchanged benefits in those meetings. One of those meetings would have taken place at a COEN session at the Ministry of Defense last year.
The Government was evaluating dismissing former PNP general Raúl Alfaro. According to Villanueva, Benavides said that “that cannot be” and asks him to coordinate a meeting with Boluarte. “I coordinate with the president’s advisor, Mrs. Grika Asayag,” said Villanueva.
Villanueva says that in total, Boluarte and Benavides met four or five times.
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Deactivation of Eficcop
The seventh is for the deactivation of the Special Police Team that supported the Team of Prosecutors against Corruption of power (Eficcop). Last month the Judiciary asked the Public Ministry to end this investigation.
The investigation is for the alleged use of presidential power to promote the dismissal of the PNP colonel, Harvey Colchado, who was head of the Diviac. In addition, the coordinating prosecutor of Eficcop, Marita Barreto, denounced a regulation on the part of the Government.
The president is accused in this case of alleged personal cover-up and abuse of authority.
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Dynamics of the Center
And the eighth investigation against the president is for the alleged illicit contributions of the Peru Libre campaign in the case of “The Dynamics of the Center.”
The Public Ministry investigates the role that Boluarte played as in charge of keeping the accounting of the accounts of the Perú Libre political party during the 2021 election campaign and the origin of that financing.
Congress must see investigations
As Boluarte is a high official, she has the prerogative of pre-trial and impeachment. When the Public Ministry finishes the preliminary investigation and needs to move on to the preparatory one, it must present a constitutional complaint for each case.
These complaints will reach Congress and will first be heard by the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations, then by the Permanent Commission and finally in the Plenary.
If the congressmen do not approve the accusations, the Prosecutor’s Office will have to wait for a new Parliament to do so or five years, which is the period that the right of pre-trial lasts after Boluarte leaves the presidency.
Dina Boluarte clings to the position
In the midst of these processes, the president rejects the new attempt to vacate the presidency against her for alleged abandonment of office. “Enough of polarizing our society, enough of the rumors of a presidential vacancy,” he said at a ceremony for the anniversary of the Peruvian National Police (PNP).
The sustainability of his government basically depends on the will of the coalition that dominates Congress, led by Fuerza Popular and Alianza Para el Progreso.
The status of the investigations against Boluarte
| Investigation | State |
| Deaths in protests | Constitutional complaint pending resolution in Congress |
| Rolexgate case | Constitutional complaint pending resolution in Congress |
| illicit enrichment | Preliminary investigation |
| Deactivation of Eficcop | Preliminary investigation |
| Presidential chest | Preliminary investigation |
| Meeting with former prosecutor Patricia Benavides | Preliminary investigation |
| Dynamics of the Center | Preliminary investigation |
| Omission of duties and abandonment of office | Preliminary investigation |
