Nicanor Boluartebrother of the president of Peru, Dina Boluartewas arrested this Friday for alleged crimes of influence peddling and criminal organization within the framework of an operation related to the ‘Los Waykis en lashadow’ case. According to what has emerged, this group acted under the façade of the political party Ciudadanos por el Perú, which He used his influence to appoint prefects in exchange for succulent quotas..

Eight other people have also been arrested along with him, including Mateo Castañeda, lawyer for the Peruvian presidentwho is accused of trying to “neutralize” the investigations against Nicanor, “offering benefits of protection from the highest office” through information that could affect both him and his closest environment, Peruvian media reported.

The operation is the product of collaboration between the Special Team against Corruption in Power (Eficcop) and agents of the High Complexity Crime Investigation Division (Diviac) and includes searches in twenty properties and the order to lift the secrecy banking, tax and communications of detainees.

Shortly after this operation, President Boluarte has led an institutional event in the Miraflores Palace which has assured that his Government will continue working without being distracted “by minor matters” and added that they believe “in the justice of the country.”

Nicanor’s arrest occurs shortly after the Government announced the dissolution of the Special Team of Prosecutors Against Corruption in Power (Eficcop) -which has several cases related to the president- for an alleged “duplicity of functions” with the Diviac, in the midst of the alerts of this work team regarding Boluarte’s attempts to hinder its work.

For its part, The Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office has announced the opening of “preliminary proceedings” against Dina Boluarte as “alleged instigator“; and his Minister of the Interior, Walter Ortiz for being the “alleged author of the commission of the crime against the Administration of Justice, in the form of personal concealment”, for the deactivation of Eficcop. They are also accused of “abuse of authority.”

The Special Team of Prosecutors Against Corruption in Power supported several relevant casessuch as the investigations of the president of the country and her brother, Nicanor Boluarte, who has been arrested for alleged crimes of influence peddling and criminal organization, within the framework of an operation related to the case known as ‘The Waykis in the shadow’ .