The team of prosecutors and police that raided the home of the president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, around midnight on Fridayentered around 4:30 a.m. (9:30 GMT) this Saturday at the Government Palace of Lima, where he will continue with the proceedings of an open investigation against the ruler.
Anti-corruption prosecutors and agents from the High Complexity Crime Investigation Division (Diviac) of the National Police of Peru (PNP) arrived at the government headquarters, in the historic center of Lima, after stay for more than five hours in Boluarte’s housein the district of Surquillo.
Both the prosecutors and the police who participated in the operation told journalists that The investigation is confidential and they cannot offer more information about the investigations.
The entry into Boluarte’s home and the Government Palace is carried out as part of a preliminary investigation opened on March 18 against the president for the alleged commission of the crime of illicit enrichment.
The prosecutors carried out the operation for the purpose of search and seizure of luxury watches that, according to local media, Boluarte used in different public activities and supposedly has not declared it as part of his assets.
They raid the house
The raid on the ruler’s house took place for more than 5 hours, as part of an operation that led Diviac agents to breaking the lock on the main door after not being attended to by repeatedly knocking on the house.
The Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office raids the house of President Diana Boluarte. Watch the video of how they knock down her door. pic.twitter.com/MUZnQcE1p6
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While the street where the president’s home is located was surrounded by a large police contingent, around 1:30 on Saturday (6:30 GMT) the vehicles of the Prime Minister, Gustavo Adrianzén, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Javier Gonzalez- Olaechea, arrived at the Government Palace, in addition to the Minister of Development and Social Inclusion, Julio Demartini.
Adrianzén later declared to the RPP radio station that he is “outraged” by the raid and considered that there had been “an intolerable attack on the dignity of the presidency of the Republic and the nation that it represents.”
The prime minister added that “it is not possible” that they “have to witness absolutely disproportionate and, when not unconstitutional, actions,” since the ruler is protected by the immunity granted by her position.
He assured that Boluarte “has at all times presented his collaboration to the Public Ministry” and that the ruler is currently in the residence of the Government Palace.
Case watches
Last Wednesday, the Prosecutor’s Office reported that visits to the ruler both at her home and at the Government Palace were frustrated, while the Presidency assured that representatives of the Public Ministry were assisted by staff from Boluarte’s office, who received a notification for the president.
However, Supreme Prosecutor Hernán Mendoza declared before the Congressional Oversight Commission that the president “had frustrated” the investigations by not responding to the summons made for Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.
Boluarte She indicated last week that she was committed to going to the Prosecutor’s Office to respond to this investigation and said that she does not have any financial irregularities. EFE
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