A new character appears in the surgeries. On December 20, 2024, the former prime minister, Alberto Otárolahe declared to the Prosecutor’s Office that the Secretary General of Palacio, Enrique Vílchez Vílchezhe informed him in the session of the Council of Ministers, of July 5, 2023, that Dina Boluarte was bad health and that he would participate in said meeting in a virtual manner, as revealed by the Sunday final point.
Vílchez Vílchez is an important person for the Government, since he is the most important official in the presidential office after Boluarte, whom he accompanies from his management in the Minstery of Social Development and Inclusion (MIDIS) from the mandate of Pedro Castillo.
“It was reported that the president was bad health and that she was going to enter the Council of Ministers in a virtual way. I learned a day before she was poorly health through the staff of her office. There was a screen in the room of the Council of Ministers, but the live image of the president did not appear. Only the voice,” he said
As remembered, previously the former of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINI), Roger Arista, said that Vílchez participated in the meetings that were carried out in the Bolognesi room on the possible whereabouts in which the fugitive of justice would be Vladimir Cerrón.
It is necessary to highlight that Otárola indicated to the Supervisory Commission of the Congresson April 15, that the head of state did not inform the members of the ministerial cabinet of their surgical intervention in June 2023.
Did Mrs. Boluarte formally or informally reported the Council of Ministers or the President of the Council of Ministers to carry out this medical procedure? “No. He did not,” Otárola replied.
On December 3, 2024, Otárola was the one who confirmed in the Supervisory Commission that the president had undergone surgical intervention in the nose.
Secretary General is investigated for being the alleged operator between the Government and Cerrón
On February 9, the journalistic program revealed that the Secretary General of Palacio, Enrique Ernesto Vílchez Vílchezhe was in the sight of the Prosecutor’s Office, after the statements of the former PNP heads, Jorge Angulo and Roger Arista.
Arista declared to the Public Ministry that Vílchez Vílchez was part of the meetings that were held in the Bolognesi Room in which the possible hiding places of the leader of Peru Libre, Vladimir Cerrón, were discussed.
Angulo also coincided with the statements of the former head of the DYI. It is necessary to specify that Angulo was passed to Dina Boluarte days after the operation in the Mikonos condominium against Cerrón in January last year.
“I don’t know what his specific missions will be, I don’t know, but I could notice the few times I was that Mr. (Enrique Vílchez Vílchez) was present, perhaps because he is secretary,” Angulo told the Public Ministry.
Secretary General and his links with the Boluarte brothers
The relationship between the Boluarte brothers and Enrique Vílchez began when Nicanor coincided with Vílchez in the Ministry of Labor in 2016, when he served as vice ministers and the current general secretary of Palace as legal advisor.
In 2018, Vílchez worked as a legal advisor in Sigico, where the president’s older brother was general manager. Then, in the Municipality of Pueblo Libre when Nicanor Boluarte held the position of advisor I, after the departure of Enrique Vílchez in January 2021.
