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Lima, Peru—Peru’s interior minister resigned Monday, two days after police under his command raided the home and office of President Dina Boluarte as part of a probe into how she obtained Rolex watches she has been seen wearing.
But his departure was widely seen as punishment for the weekend raids targeting the president. He has also taken a lot of heat in congress over a sharp increase in street crime. This is the first casualty of the drama that erupted in mid-March when a news program revealed that Boluarte, who has a rock bottom approval rating, owns several expensive Rolex timepieces and it is not clear how she acquired them on a government salary of about $55,000.Boluarte, 61, has not cleared things up other than to say the watches are the fruit of a life of hard work.
Boluarte is scheduled to give a formal statement to investigators on Friday and has been instructed to present any Rolex watches in her possession when she goes to that meeting.Boluarte came to power in December 2022 after then president Pedro Castillo tried to dissolve Congress and rule by decree, leading to his arrest and violent protests demanding she step down, and that fresh elections be held.
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