Peru expands investigation into Boluarte for ‘Rolexgate’

The Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office reported this Wednesday that it has expanded the preliminary investigation into President Dina Boluarte in the case of the Rolex luxury watches that she displayed at various events, to include the possible commission of a crime of improper passive bribery, which adds to the of illicit enrichment.

Meanwhile, the Peruvian justice system announced on Wednesday that President Dina Boluarte and a controversial governor, who allegedly lent her three luxury watches and a gold bracelet for her to wear without asking for anything in return, requested to declare the seizure unfounded. the jewelry made by the prosecution.

The judiciary confirmed on its preliminary for the alleged crime of illicit enrichment against the president.

The seizure of the three Rolex watches and a gold bracelet encrusted with diamonds was achieved two weeks ago in a proceeding when the governor’s lawyer took the jewelry to exhibit before the prosecutor’s office. At the next hearing the prosecutor’s office will seek to have a judge confirm the seizure.

Boluarte told the press in early April that the Rolex watches had been lent to him by his “friend” the governor without asking for anything in return. The president’s statements occurred after a silence of almost a month after the local media “La Encerrona” showed, or by analyzing thousands of photographs of the presidential house, that the president wore jewelry without mentioning it in her mandatory sworn statements.