The police of Peru This Friday he arrested the brother and the lawyer of the country’s president, Dina Boluarte, for their alleged connection with a corruption scheme that appointed officials in exchange for bribesannounced the prosecutor’s office.
A special team of prosecutors against corruption “detained Nicanor Boluarte Zegarra, Mateo Castañeda and others investigated for the crimes of criminal organization and influence peddling,” the Public Ministry indicated on the social network X.
Boluarte, older brother of the Peruvian president, He was arrested in his apartment, in the east of Lima.
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They arrest Nicanor Boluarte Zegarra and Mateo Castañeda, Dina Boluarte’s brother and lawyer, respectively.
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The prosecution accuses him of command a network of corruption that appointed prefects and sub-prefects in exchange for “financial gifts,” according to the judiciary in a statement.
The officials serve as representatives of the government in the regions of the country and are appointed directly by the president and the Minister of the Interior.
From their positions they recruited “affiliates” to register a new political partyCitizens for Peru, which would be headed by Nicanor, 64 years old.
The organization “would have created its criminal program immediately after Boluarte” took office as president on December 7, the judiciary added.
Boluarte denied the allegations while he was led, handcuffed, to prison after the raid on his apartment.
“I deny absolutely everything, I am innocent,” he told reporters.
“De facto power”
The president’s lawyer was arrested along with Boluarte and six more people in different operations carried out in Lima, Cajamarca, Junín and San Martín.
As part of these actions, “26 properties” were raided, the prosecutor’s office said.
Castañeda represents the Peruvian president in the investigation he faces for some luxury watches which he did not declare in his list of assets.
According to judicial authorities, Nicanor Boluarte took advantage of the “de facto power” given to him by his sister to “instrument the prefectures and sub-prefectures” for his benefit.
While Castañeda allegedly fulfilled the role of “legal operator” of the corruption network.
The Peruvian president was exposed to a new scandal after the process that entangled her brother.
Boluarte, 61 years oldis being interrogated for the so-called Rolexgate and faces another judicial investigation for the repression of the protests that followed his inauguration.
As part of the first process, the prosecutor’s office raided his home and the presidential office in March in search of the jewelry that, according to Boluarte, belongs to a governor who gave it to him as a loan.
The president is under suspicion of “illicit enrichment and failure to record a declaration in documents.”
On Thursday, the government surprisingly announced the dissolution of the police unit that supported the team of anti-corruption prosecutors that carried out the search operation against the head of state and detained her brother, citing operational reasons.
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If the prosecution finally decides to charge her, Boluarte would only be brought to trial at the end of her termin July 2026, as established by the Constitution.
The president assumed power to replace Pedro Castillo, who was dismissed and imprisoned for his failed attempt to dissolve Congress.
After his swearing-in, Protests broke out and were harshly repressed. by the public force.
In the riots, 50 people died, allegedly at the hands of police and military.
As a result of this, Since January 2023, Boluarte has faced an investigation for alleged “genocide”aggravated homicide and serious injuries”.
With information from AFP.
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2024-05-10 22:15:33