“I rule out that there is political persecution. Let it be investigated and I will answer as many times as necessary before the Prosecutor’s Office,” Boluarte added.
The vice president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, assured this Sunday that “it has neither head nor tail” its inclusion in the fiscal investigation for alleged money laundering in the financing of the electoral campaigns of the members of the Peru Libre party.
Boluarte, who is also Minister of Development and Social Inclusion, was charged with having opened a bank account in her name to collect donations to help the party leader, Vladimir Cerrón, pay the compensation to which he was convicted of corruption.
The vice president recalled that she already testified before the prosecutor on this matter and pointed out that she has no problem being questioned as many times as necessary.
“As the investigation progresses, the Prosecutor’s Office will have to remove us from the file because it has neither head nor tail,” said Boluarte during a visit to the Ica region.
“I rule out that there is political persecution. Let it be investigated and I will answer as many times as necessary before the Prosecutor’s Office ”, added the minister.
Boluarte affirmed that both she and the Deputy Minister of Territorial Governance of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM), Braulio Grajeda, with whom she shared ownership of the bank account, are “innocent.”
Likewise, the vice president trusted that her accusation does not go along the lines of collaborating with the opposition to promote a presidential impeachment and remove both the current president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, and her from power.
He also reiterated that the bank account was completely transparent and they did not commit any illegality in opening it at the request of the general secretary of the party.
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.
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.
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. when he was regional governor of Junín.
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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