In the night between Friday and Saturday the police they searched the home of the president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, as part of a corruption investigation involving a collection of around fifteen luxury watches of unknown origin. Boluarte is suspected of having enriched herself illicitly and of not having declared the watches, all worn between 2021 and 2022, including an 18-carat gold Rolex with diamonds set with an estimated value of over 17 thousand euros. In Peru all public officials are obliged to declare their assets and assets.
Boluarte has been interim president of Peru since December 2022, when he replaced Pedro Castillo, a former left-wing Marxist-inspired teacher who was removed for attempting a coup to put an end to the serious political crisis of his presidency. Before, she was his vice president. Despite having the support of parliament, his support among the population is very low, around 20 percent: during his mandate he had large protests against the government harshly repressed, in which dozens of people were killed.
So far Boluarte has denied all accusations. At the beginning of the investigation he had admitted to owning at least one Rolex, claiming however that he had purchased it with what he had earned since he was 18 years old. Before becoming president she was a civil servant and according to the news site The Encerrona, cited and The worldhad an annual salary of around 13,500 euros.