The president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, filed a complaint with the judicial authorities considering that her rights have been violated during the investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office for the alleged commission of the crimes of illicit enrichment and bribery in the case of the Rolex watches that he exhibited at various events and did not declare.
“(Boluarte) requests before this Supreme Court Protection of Rights for being the subject of tax proceedings without the presence of technical defense and for violation of the constitutional right of defense and procedural equality by the Public Ministry,” reads the complaint document published this Thursday by the Judiciary on social network X.
The hearing will be held virtually on Tuesday, May 21 at 3 p.m., which will be led by the Supreme Court of Preparatory Investigation. The accused claims to be the subject of tax proceedings without the presence of her technical defense, violating her constitutional right to…
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The president also requests that, for this reason, the actions carried out by the Prosecutor’s Office during the investigation are declared null and void and the information obtained in proceedings of the Public Ministry is excluded from it.
The president also requests that, for this reason, the actions carried out by the Prosecutor’s Office during the investigation be declared null and void.
He also requests that the information generated as a result of the tax proceedings of open source extraction and transcription records described in his request be excluded from the investigation.
And also requests warn the attorney general, Juan Carlos Villena, to exercise the mandate contained in the legislation and carry out due control of fiscal actions, “in order to avoid the violation of the constitutional right of due process and impact on the right of defense.”
Opponents of Peruvian President Dina Boluarte hold signs and shout as she appears before the National Prosecutor’s Office in Lima on May 15, 2024, summoned to give new testimony in the framework of the investigation called “Rolexgate.”
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On April 24, the Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office expanded the preliminary investigation into Boluarte in ‘Rolexgate’ by including the possible commission of a crime of improper passive briberywhich is added to that of illicit enrichment and failure to record statements in documents.
(You can read: Peru: President Boluarte attends a new interrogation by the attorney general for the ‘Rolex case’)
Boluarte showed his watch to show that he uses low-cost accessories.
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After the search of her home and the Government Palace on March 30, as part of this investigation, the head of state testified on April 5 for more than five hours before the Prosecutor’s Office and then gave a statement to the press in which He denied having Rolex watches and other jewelry valued at thousands of dollars.
Police leave the home of President Dina Boluarte during a raid ordered by the Attorney General’s Office as part of a preliminary investigation in Lima on March 30, 2024.
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Boluarte will meet with Xi Jinping in June
At the same time, it was announced that the Peruvian president will travel to China next June with a broad economic and will meet with his counterpart Xi Jinping, as reported this Wednesday by the Minister of Agrarian Development and Irrigation of the Andean country, Ángel Manero.
”President Dina Boluarte is going to China in June and had 28 points to discuss with the Chinese president (Xi Jinping),” but “we have managed to incorporate point 29: export meat to China“Manero announced in a press conference after the Council of Ministers.
In the interview, Milei gave his views on Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
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Accompanied by the head of the cabinet, Gustavo Adrianzén, the head of Agrarian Development explained that “only the export of meat to China can mean for Peru 3,000 or 4,000 million dollars, in the medium term”.
Boluarte’s probable meeting with Xi in June will be a prior occasion to the summit of leaders of the Asia Pacific Cooperation Forum (APEC), which Peru is organizing next November and where the participation of the Chinese president, as well as the rulers of the 21 economies that make up that forum.
*With information from EFE
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