The Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office asked the Peruvian president, Dina Boluarte, on Thursday to send the medical documentation that led to a nasal surgery in 2023, for which she is being investigated due to allegations of abandonment of office and omission of duties.
In a statement, the prosecutor’s office required that, within 24 hours, the president provide reports on the state of health that justified the surgical intervention, given the controversy in recent weeks regarding her absence for 11 days, between June and July. of 2023.
Boluarte, who has denied through her defense that it was cosmetic surgery, testified for four hours before the Public Ministry this week in a case in which she is being investigated for having omitted her duty to inform Parliament and the ministerial cabinet of the “temporary impediment” to exercise the presidency between June 28 and July 9.
The crimes of abandonment of position and omission of functional acts are punishable in Peru with two years in prison.
According to the president’s lawyer, Juan Portugal, the operation lasted one hour and was carried out on the night of June 28, 2023. That night the president slept in the clinic and the next morning she returned to her work. normal way.
The prosecution also asked the president or her defense to send the “91 original regulations that she claims she signed between June 28 and July 9, 2023.” The president said in December that in the 11 days after her surgery she signed 91 regulations and criticized “that now they say that the signatures were forged.”
After concluding its preliminary investigation, the Public Ministry could constitutionally accuse the president before Parliament, so that when her term ends – on July 28, 2026 – she can be tried before the Supreme Court, as determined by the procedure for senior officials in Peru.
The president now has six tax investigations for various crimes, including aggravated homicide for her responsibility in the deaths of protesters between December 2022 and March 2023 during a series of protests that demanded her resignation.
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