The General Undersecretary of the Presidential Office refused to pay for the former president’s legal defense Dina Boluarte in the scope of investigations for the alleged crime of illicit enrichment. For this case, the National Prosecutor’s Office Boluarte is being investigated for allegedly having illegally increased his assets with respect to his income obtained in said position between March and December 2024.
After the General Legal Advice Office evaluated the former president’s request and the tax provision, concluded that “there is no relationship between the facts under investigation, consisting of the alleged illicit increase of assets with respect to legitimate income and the regular exercise of the functions that corresponded to him as President of the Republic.”
That is to say, they specify, the alleged crime “is configured by the unjustified increase in assets of a personal nature, which does not constitute or derive from the exercise of powers, powers or decisions inherent to the position of President of the Republic.”
“In response to what was requested through the documents of opinion and with the evaluation carried out by the General Office of Legal Counsel, the inadmissibility of the benefit of defense and legal advice to cover the costs of the sponsorship of Mrs. Dina Ercilia Boluarte Zegarra is determined,” the document reads.
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Dina Boluarte: they approve financing the legal defense of 4 other cases
On the other hand, the Undersecretary General approved that the Presidential Office finance the legal defense of the former president in 4 other investigations. The first is for the alleged crime of generic falsification in the Surgery case.
According to the prosecutor’s thesis, Boluarte would have committed the crime of falsification by allegedly simulating or intentionally altering the truth of the facts, pretending the authenticity of official acts. Specifically, she is credited with signing, in her own handwriting, various regulations on dates when—according to medical documentation and testimonies from the health personnel who operated on her on the night of June 28, 2023—she was physically unable to do so, as she was under medical indication of postoperative rest.
According to the investigation, this condition would have extended both during his stay at the Cabani Clinic and at his home, between June 29 and July 9 of that year.
The other case is for the alleged crime of minor injuries and serious injuries due to deaths in protests against his government between December 2022 and February 2023.
The third case is for the alleged illegality of minor injuries due to the same investigations of the deaths of Peruvians during the demonstrations.
The fourth is for the alleged crime of bribery. According to the tax thesis, Boluarte would have intervened directly or indirectly in avoiding or paralyzing tax investigations that involved people in his close environment, through coordination with advisors for the displacement of Eficcop and the paralysis of the investigations against him.
Likewise, he is credited with having requested the archiving of investigations against him and his brother Nicanor Boluarte, as part of an alleged prior agreement. In execution of said agreement, the National Prosecutor would have influenced tax decisions favorable to the former president and, as compensation, the head of SUNAT would have been dismissed by Supreme Resolution.
