The investigation focuses on the case of the alleged money laundering committed by the ‘Peru Libre’ party to pay for the presidential campaigns of members.
The vice president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, was included in the tax investigation opened for the alleged illicit financing committed by the Peru Libre party to pay for the electoral campaigns of several of its members, according to sources from the Prosecutor’s Office to the newspaper El Comercio.
Boluarte, who is also Minister of Development and Social Inclusion, has been charged with having opened a bank account in her name to collect donations that would help the party leader, Vladimir Cerrón, to pay the compensation to which he was convicted of corruption.
In addition to Boluarte, another eleven people have also been charged in the same case, including the Vice Minister of Territorial Governance of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM), Braulio Grajeda, who shared the bank account with the current vice president.
According to the testimony of an effective collaborator of the Prosecutor’s Office (awarded whistleblower), that bank account allegedly received money from bribes collected by the Directorate of Transport and Communications of the Junín regional government, held by the Marxist Peru Libre party.
This money collected from the illegal charges received for the irregular issuance of driver’s licenses was also apparently used to finance the campaigns to Congress of several militants from Peru Libre.
The administration in charge of Peru Libre in the central region of Junín also allegedly forced its temporary workers to contribute 100 soles (about $ 25) a month to the account opened by Boluarte and Grajeda under threat of not renewing their contracts.
The prosecutor in charge of the case, Richard Rojas, suspects that Boluarte may have allegedly incurred in “acts of money laundering that had the objective of improperly financing his political campaign.”
In July Boluarte explained that he opened that bank account as secretary of the economy of Peru Libre and at the request of Cerrón to collect solidarity donations from militants who wanted to help him with the civil reparation of the sentence that was imposed on him for corruption when he served as regional governor of Junín .
From that account, 15,709 soles (about $ 4,000) were transferred to Cerrón’s personal account, which represents a small portion of the 850,000 soles (about $ 215,000) to which the leader of Peru Libre was sentenced for an incompatible negotiation offense. .
This sentence, which includes a suspended four-year prison sentence, was the one that left Cerrón out of the presidential elections, and in his place the teacher and union leader of the Peruvian teaching profession Pedro Castillo, who ended up becoming the president of Peru by winning the elections. (I)
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