The home of Peru’s President Dina Boluarte has been raided as part of a continuing corruption investigation linked to undisclosed luxury watches, police said.
It is alleged she only accumulated them in the past couple of years.
The AFP news agency reported, citing a police document, that about 40 officials were involved in the raid early on Saturday to search for Rolex watches that Boluarte had not declared.
The joint operation between the police and the prosecutor’s office was broadcast on the local television channel Latina. Televised images showed government agents from an investigative team breaking into the president’s residence with a sledgehammer.
President Boluarte has described a police raid on her home and government offices as "arbitrary, disproportionate and abusive,".
Al Jazeera’s Mariana Sanchez reports from Lima, Peru.
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It is alleged she only accumulated them in the past couple of years.
The AFP news agency reported, citing a police document, that about 40 officials were involved in the raid early on Saturday to search for Rolex watches that Boluarte had not declared.
The joint operation between the police and the prosecutor’s office was broadcast on the local television channel Latina. Televised images showed government agents from an investigative team breaking into the president’s residence with a sledgehammer.
President Boluarte has described a police raid on her home and government offices as "arbitrary, disproportionate and abusive,".
Al Jazeera’s Mariana Sanchez reports from Lima, Peru.
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