By Marco Aquino
LIMA (Reuters) -Peruvian President Dina Boluarte on Saturday mentioned she wouldn’t resign after her home was raided as a part of inquiries into potential illicit enrichment and failure to declare possession of luxurious watches.
Some 20 officers from the general public prosecutor’s workplace and 20 police raided Boluarte’s home on Friday night time, and the palace on Saturday morning.
“I took workplace with clear fingers and thus I’ll retire from the presidency in 2026,” she mentioned at a press convention, calling the raids a “disproportionate” measure and “abusive.”
Boluarte’s home is positioned within the Lima district of Surquillo, a number of kilometres from the palace the place she works.
“Personnel from the palace offered all of the services for the diligence requested,” the presidency mentioned on social media platform X, including that it was carried out “usually and with none incident.”
Nevertheless, Peruvian Prime Minister Gustavo Adrianzen additionally criticized the raids. “The political noise that’s being made is critical, affecting investments and the whole nation,” he wrote on X. “What has occurred in the previous few hours is disproportionate and unconstitutional actions.”
Two weeks in the past, prosecutors started preliminary inquiries following a media report by web program La-Encerrona that the president possessed a number of Rolex watches.
The inquiry meant to determine whether or not there have been grounds for a proper investigation of the president.
Boluarte, in workplace since December 2022, has acknowledged that she owns Rolex watches, which she mentioned she had purchased with cash she earned since she was younger.
The prosecutor’s workplace had tried unsuccessfully final Wednesday to conduct a examine of the watches at Boluarte’s workplace, however her legal professionals mentioned there was a conflict of diary appointments and sought to reschedule the appointment.
The inquiry into Boluarte is the most recent in an extended historical past of probes into Peruvian presidents and senior officers.
