LIMA, Peru—Peruvian President Dina Boluarte replaced six ministers after they resigned as her government is rocked by a political crisis fueled by an alleged illicit enrichment scandal involving luxury watches.
Police guard outside President Dina Boluarte’s house during a raid ordered by the Attorney General’s Office aimed at seizing luxury watches as part of a preliminary investigation into alleged illicit enrichment in Lima, Peru on Saturday, March 30, 2024.
Boluarte is being preliminarily investigated for allegedly acquiring an undisclosed collection of luxury watches since becoming vice president and social inclusion minister in July 2021 and then president in December 2022. Boluarte, a 61-year-old lawyer, was a modest district official before entering then-President Pedro Castillo’s government on a monthly salary of $8,136 in July 2021. Boluarte later assumed the presidency with a lower salary of $4,200 per month. Shortly thereafter, she began to display the luxury watches.On Monday, Boluarte initially lost three Cabinet members when the ministers of interior, education and women abruptly resigned.
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