Dina Boluarte’s ‘visitor’: Wilfredo Oscorima met nine times with the president at the Government Palace
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Since January 2023, the president Dina Boluarte He has received the regional governor of Ayacucho nine times at the Government Palace, Wilfredo Oscorima, according to data from his office’s Transparency Portal released this Wednesday by Mail.
One of those appointments occurred last March 14, just hours after The Encerrona will reveal the collection of 15 undeclared luxury watchesincluding at least four Rolexa case for which the Public Ministry opened a preliminary investigation for alleged illicit enrichment.
According to the report, the first meeting between Boluarte and Oscorima It was April 11, 2023 and it took half an hour. Although a direct appointment with the president is not specified, the name of Morgan Quero, then head of the Technical Cabinet, does appear.
On May 3, the governor met with the head of state for almost 20 minutes. On June 21, he entered for a work meeting that lasted three hours and in which, Once again, Quero’s name appeared as the person in charge of authorizing entry.
A day later, on June 22, another record appears meeting for a little more than an hour with Boluarte and other officials, including the former Minister of Economy, Alex Contreras; and the former executive director of Provías DecentralizedCarlos Revilla, currently preventively detained for the ‘Untouchables of corruption’ case.
On July 21, Oscorima returned to the Palace along with other governors, as he did the following year, on January 4, 2024. On February 8, he held another work meeting and his entry was recorded as a private visit.
Subsequently, he attended the Presidential Office twice: the first was on March 1, for a little more than an hour; and the second, the day of the unveiling of their watches. Four days later, the Prosecutor’s Office began preliminary proceedings for the alleged commission of the crimes of illicit enrichment and failure to declare.
“Before the Public Ministry, who by the way already notified me, I already appeared to my lawyers. I will be as always, telling the truth, not only to the Public Ministry, but to Peru in general,” he said. However, the supreme prosecutor Hernán Mendoza reported that Boluarte did not attend the summons to testify and even frustrated the proceedings.
“Among the procedures ordered was receiving the statement from Dina Boluarte and the exhibition of at least three of the watches that were compromised; both procedures have been frustrated by the non-attendance of Mrs. Boluarte,” the magistrate noted before the Commission of Congressional oversight.
Oscorima has said that the head of state “has a lot of social sensitivity”, compared the protests to terrorist acts and came out to defend her when she was attacked and shaken on an official visit to Ayacucho, where ten people died during the demonstrations at the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023.
In an interview broadcast last Sunday by Fourth powerthe regional authority confirmed that it acquired the Banchero House a watch identical to Boluarte’s, but he rigorously denied having been the author of that gift. “I bought the watch last year. […] It may be the middle of the year, I don’t remember, but I made the purchase to give it to a very dear family member,” he said without mentioning his relative or showing the guarantee card for the jewelry.
“They gave me a gift bag to give to the beneficiary and I went and gave it to her. […] Nothing, it’s like if you go to a store you ask for it in a gift bag, they give it to you and you take it with you. They ask you: ‘Is it for a gift?’ ‘Yeah’; and he is already there,” she justified.
In the past, Oscorima He was denounced for giving luxury watches to two judges of the Superior Court of Justice of Huamanga in exchange for favors. In 2014, he was investigated by Congress for alleged ties to drug trafficking. The following year, the governor was sentenced for corruption. He was a fugitive for 9 months and was finally held in a prison. In May 2017, he regained his freedom.
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