The Public Ministry reported that the Minister of the Interior, Juan José Santiváñez, did know that his right to privacy would not be violated and still refused to hand over his iCloud password.
“The person under investigation is fully aware that the information that will be obtained does not violate his fundamental rights, since the period in which the events occurred is identified and access to personal information is not intended,” reads the statement published by the Prosecutor’s Office.
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In that sense, the institution insisted that the request made by the Area of Illicit Enrichment and Constitutional Complaints “is not arbitrary or violates rights and guarantees.” “On the contrary, it strictly complies with the mandates of the law and the Political Constitution of Peru,” they added.
Likewise, they emphasized that “the notification to the investigated Juan José Santiváñez Antúnez was subject to the willingness to collaborate with the clarification of the facts, as part of the investigation for the alleged crime of abuse of authority, to the detriment of journalists.”
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The Minister of the Interior, Juan José Santiváñez, refused to comply with the request of the Prosecutor’s Office, which gave him a period of 48 hours to provide the iCloud account and password for his iPhone 15 Pro Max.
“There are two types of requests: legal and illegal (…) iCloud information, those who have an iPhone know that with that password you access everything, bank accounts, photographs, records, documents, you access all your information. If the prosecutor “He wants to find out about my life, to quote me and ask me, but not through any iCloud username or password, it is an illegal request,” he mentioned during an event in Arequipa.
Given this situation, Santiváñez assured that he will formally present a complaint to the National Board of Justice about the role of the National Prosecutor because “he will not allow his rights to be violated.”
