Dina Boluarte Probe: Peru Prosecutors Archive 2024 Illicit Enrichment Case
PERU · JUSTICE
Key Facts
- —Decision Peru’s Ministerio Público archived preliminary case 54-2025 against Dina Boluarte for aggravated illicit enrichment, her defence announced on 30 September 2026.
- —Period examined Prosecutors reviewed her finances from 16 March to 31 December 2024, when she was president of Peru.
- —Finding Prosecutors found no unexplained gap between her assets and her public-sector salary, citing forensic accounting report 04-2026 (Canal N, 30 September 2026).
- —Still open Two prosecution files over the December 2022 protests and one over the Qali Warma school-meal programme remain, her lawyer told Exitosa on 30 September 2026.
Prosecutors have closed one inquiry into Dina Boluarte’s personal finances, but the deadly 2022 protests still weigh on the former president.
Peru’s Ministerio Público, the national prosecution service, has archived an investigation into former president Dina Boluarte for aggravated illicit enrichment. Her lawyers announced the decision on 30 September 2026, saying prosecutors found no unexplained growth in her wealth during 2024.
Prosecutors close the 2024 wealth inquiry
The file, registered as case 54-2025, was a preliminary investigation. It examined Boluarte’s money between 16 March and 31 December 2024, when she was president.
Illicit enrichment means that an official’s wealth grows in ways their legal income cannot explain. The decision came from the Fiscalía de la Nación, the office of Peru’s attorney general.
Peru’s attorney general is Tomás Gálvez, who has led the prosecution service since September 2025. A board of senior prosecutors elected him to a full 2026 to 2029 term in March 2026.
Every sum could be traced
Prosecutors concluded that there was no unjustified imbalance between Boluarte’s assets and her income, Canal N reported. They said the money entering and leaving her accounts could be traced.
No deposits of unknown origin turned up. Her income came from her salaries in the public sector.
Official accountants also found that her bank deposits matched the income tax returns she filed with SUNAT, Peru’s national tax agency.
The findings rest on a forensic accounting report numbered 04-2026. Prosecutors also found no abuse of office linking her presidential role to her personal finances.
How the news came out
The decision became public through a statement from Boluarte’s defence team, led by the lawyer Juan Carlos Portugal. The team also includes Luis Castro Grados, Piero Vílchez Cabeza and Sergio Medina Valladares.
Canal N, a Peruvian news channel, reported the statement at 6:36 p.m. Lima time on 30 September. The radio station Exitosa carried it the same day.
The archive covers only this one case. Other inquiries into her sworn asset declarations continue, Exitosa reported.
It follows a smaller win for her in May 2026. Prosecutors then archived claims that she had signed official papers while unable to work after surgery in mid-2023.
In that case, handwriting tests confirmed the signatures were hers, according to Canal N. Prosecutors also found no medical order had kept her from her duties.
The protest files remain
Boluarte, then vice-president, became president on 7 December 2022, after Congress removed Pedro Castillo. Castillo had tried to dissolve Congress hours earlier.
Protests followed, mainly in the poorer south of the country. Dozens of people died in clashes with soldiers and police.
Portugal told Exitosa that two remaining prosecution files concern those protests. He said the suspected charges against her are serious and minor injuries.
He said both files passed their legal time limit for investigation two months ago. That is a procedural deadline, not a ruling that the cases are closed.
The attorney general decides next
Portugal said the defence has already argued its case in an oral hearing before Gálvez. The attorney general must now decide whether to archive the two files or continue.
The lawyer also argued that Boluarte never had direct command over the troops. He said military commanders themselves had stated that no president commands them.
No date for that decision has been made public.
From 25 complaints to a handful
When Portugal took on her defence, Boluarte faced 25 open complaints at the Ministerio Público, he said. Only three remain unresolved.
Besides the two protest files, one concerns Qali Warma, a state school-meal programme. It dates from her time as minister of development and social inclusion, before she became president.
Four further complaints await review by the subcommittee on constitutional accusations. That body sits in the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of Peru’s new two-chamber Congress.
What it means for Peru
Congress removed Boluarte from office on 10 October 2025, citing permanent moral incapacity, a broad legal ground for removal. José Jerí, then head of Congress, took over as president.
Peru has put several former presidents on trial in the past decade. Legal cases against ex-leaders are a familiar part of public life there.
For investors and residents, the archive changes no policy, because Boluarte holds no office. Its main effect is on her own legal position.
The ruling narrows her legal exposure but does not end it. The attorney general’s decision on the protest files is the next step to watch.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What investigation into Dina Boluarte was archived?
Prosecutors archived case 54-2025, a preliminary investigation for aggravated illicit enrichment. It covered her finances from 16 March to 31 December 2024, when she was Peru’s president.
Why did prosecutors close the case?
They found no unexplained gap between her assets and her income. Her money came from public-sector salaries, matched her tax returns and could be traced, according to a forensic accounting report.
Is Dina Boluarte cleared of all accusations?
No. Two prosecution files over the 2022 protests and one over the Qali Warma school-meal programme remain open, her lawyer said. Four complaints also await review in the Chamber of Deputies.
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