MADRID 27 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office announced this Thursday that it has summoned the country’s president, Dina Boluarte, to testify on January 15, 2025, who is being investigated for an alleged crime of personal cover-up in the framework of the ‘Presidential Chest’ case. which examines the possible use of the official vehicle of the Presidency for the escape of the leader of the Peru Libre party, Vladimir Cerrón, a fugitive for more than ten months.
According to the document, the head of state must appear on the established date at 9:00 a.m. (local time) along with her legal defense at the Public Ministry office located in the Andean capital, Lima. The Minister of the Interior, Juan José Santiváñez, has also been summoned; former Prime Minister Alberto Otárola; the representative of the Board of Owners of the Mikonos condominium, Gabriel Gustavo Herrera; and the driver of the presidential vehicle, Félix Montalvo.
Boluarte addressed the country on November 12 and assured that he was not in Mykonos (in the Peruvian district of Asia), where Cerrón would have allegedly been, pointing out that “media legends” have been built around the aforementioned case. The president considers that the objective is to generate a crisis in her government management, as reported by the newspaper ‘La República’.
The Prosecutor’s Office opened proceedings against the president at the end of September after the publication of an audio recording in which Santiváñez explains to Police Captain Junior Izquierdo that Cerrón was transferred in the presidential vehicle, known as ‘El Cofre’, to facilitate his escape to Pisco.
Cerrón is being prosecuted for the crime of collusion to the detriment of the State and he is sentenced by the Temporary Criminal Appeals Chamber Specialized in Corruption Crimes of Junín of three years and six months in prison for the Wanka Aerodrome case. These are the leader of former President Pedro Castillo’s party, dismissed on December 7, 2022 after an attempt to dissolve Parliament, and Boluarte.