Peru Prosecutors Probe President, Ex-President for Alleged Cash Laundering

LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian prosecutors are investigating President Dina Boluarte and former president Pedro Castillo for allegedly laundering cash as a part of a felony group, the lawyer common’s workplace mentioned on Twitter on Tuesday.

The probe into the alleged crimes by Boluarte and Castillo is a part of an ongoing investigation into alleged marketing campaign finance crimes dedicated throughout Peru’s 2021 presidential race.

The announcement comes after a former adviser to Castillo advised native media that he had financed a part of Castillo’s presidential marketing campaign in 2021, in addition to journeys for Boluarte when she was operating to be Castillo’s vice chairman.

“The alleged fee of those crimes would have occurred throughout the electoral marketing campaign of Peru Libre,” the lawyer common’s workplace mentioned, referencing the Marxist occasion that led Castillo to the presidency of the Andean nation.

Castillo was faraway from workplace in December after making an attempt to dissolve Congress earlier than an impeachment vote. Boluarte ascended to the presidency within the wake of his elimination and arrest.

Boluarte over the weekend denied receiving unlawful marketing campaign contributions and mentioned corruption accusations have been a “political maneuver” searching for to undermine her authorities. 

Boluarte can also be presently underneath investigation for her alleged function within the deaths of protesters killed in clashes with safety forces within the months after she took workplace.  

(Reporting by Marco Aquino in Lima and Brendan O’Boyle in Mexico Metropolis; Modifying by Clarence Fernandez and Michael Perry)

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