Nicanor Boluart: Dina Boluart’s brother and lawyer arrested for alleged influence peddling

In a mega-operation, where the properties of 22 people under investigation were raided, the special team of prosecutors for the fight against power preliminarily detained for 10 days Nicanor Boluart, the elder brother of Peruvian President Dina Boluart and Took in. His lawyer, Mateo Castañeda. He has been accused of creating a criminal organization and manipulating the appointment of deputy sheriffs to finance a criminal network and in return collect signatures for the registration of a political party. Prefects and sub-prefects are representatives of the executive branch in different regions of the country. They are considered administrative positions of trust and are appointed by the Minister of the Interior and the Executive.

Time and again, Dina Boluarte has defended the reputation of her relative, whom she has been keeping an eye on for a year. Various journalistic investigations revealed that Nicanor Boluarte was immersed in hiring people close to himself and his sister, as well as organizing a meeting to extort 20 million soles ($5.4 million) to a municipality in Cajamarca. The budget was allocated. Mayor. In short, he is charged with coordinating meetings between the President and various political and economic actors.

In addition, she is involved in the possible fraud of the political party Ciudadanos por el Peru, linked to Boluatre and registered a few months earlier, of which the electoral authority found that at least 500 of the 32,000 signatures were falsified to obtain registration. False. “Stop defaming my brother, who is not participating in any party organization at all,” the president said last January.

This afternoon, after seven hours of proceedings, Nicanor Boluerte was transferred to Lima Province. He was wearing a mask and cap. As for presidential lawyer Mateo Castañeda, he is accused of trying to bribe police colonels Walter Lozano and Harvey Colchado with promotions in exchange for influencing the investigation in favor of Nicanor Boluerte in a special election. And the team against corruption of power promised continuity in office.

When both refused, retaliation occurred. In mid-April, Harvey Colchado, who was in charge of the High Complexity Crime Division, was suspended for celebrating his birthday with a cake, which allegedly staged the moment of the raid on the President’s home during Holy Week. Was. But not only this. This Thursday, on the eve of the arrest of Nicanor Boluatre, the Ministry of the Interior destroyed the special police team that had assisted prosecutors in fighting the regime. National Prosecutor Juan Carlos Villena has announced that he will seek to immediately change this order.

This Friday, during a seminar in Lima, President Boluatre resurfaced after allegations that she was absent from the government for two weeks in mid-2023 to undergo cosmetic surgery. He did not comment on this, but he did comment on the arrest of his brother Nicanor, although without directly naming him. “We are not going to get distracted by small things,” he said. We believe in the justice of the country, we believe in the rationality of those who administer justice in the country, and on the same lines this government will continue to bet on democracy, on respecting our Constitution, on making our country great,” They said. ,

In addition to lawyer Mateo Castañeda, six other people are also named in the arrest order issued by Judge Richard Concepcion Carhuancho of the First National Preparatory Investigation Court. Furthermore, covert extortion of telecommunications was judicially authorized to view and extract information from mobile phones, tablets, computers, laptops, USB flash drives and external hard drives of a total of 22 people involved.

The only statement made by Nicanor Boluaert amid the swarm of journalists was, “I completely deny everything, I am innocent.” Over the past month and a half, the President has faced a number of scandals: not declaring his collection of high-end watches and jewelry as a result of alleged illegal enrichment, leaving without notifying Congress to undergo cosmetic operations and, to name a few, In the U.S., there have been attempts to censor monetary poverty reports, which show that there are approximately 10 million people in Peru who cannot meet their basic needs.

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