They claim that Dina Boluarte may have received money from Henry Shimabukuro and a businessman for her election campaign.

A newspaper report revealed that businessman Henry Shimabukuro, who is under investigation in the Shadow Cabinet case, may have been one of the current president’s financiers. Dina Boluarte during the 2021 election campaign.

Teacher Maritza Sanchez Peraleswhom then-candidate Pedro Castillo asked to support boluartindicated for Sunday fourth force that the connection between current President Boluarte and Shimabukuro would have started with a visit by a businessman to Club Apurímac at the end of April 2021 in the midst of the second round of presidential elections.

“And he says to him, ‘I want to support the campaign, I have the resources, I don’t want him to win.’ Keiko Fujimori”” – said Sanchez Perales. According to a journalistic investigation, after meeting with the head of state, the businessman began to cover all logistics costs, from plane tickets to cars that Boluarte used for mobilization. He also paid for the stands. where the current president was going to accompany Pedro Castillo. These scenarios could cost around 80,000 soles.

To the question “What exactly did Henry Shimabukuro? The teacher replied, “When Henry says ‘everything’, he is not lying. At some point, we calculated … about 800,000 soles.

But it was not only that. According to Maritza Sanchez, the money came from Shimabukuro and fell into the hands of Dina Boluarte. She believes always according fourth forcethat in May 2021 she received a call from the current president and asked if she had an account number with Banco Crédito del Perú. She agreed and Boluarte asked her to give the money to the businessman because he was going to deposit the amount of 3762 sols.

After withdrawing cash from a financial institution, Maritza Sanchez He says to the incumbent president of the republic: “Here is the money that I will buy.” “Give it to me,” said Boluarte. And the teacher gives it to him. “The only comment I made was, ‘My account is not for this kind of stuff,'” he said.

The professor also explained that Marcela Saldarriaga, the right-hand man of the then candidate in the electoral campaign, should have – at a meeting on May 19, 2021, in which she also participated Dina Bularteasked businessman Eduvigis Beltran, owner of the Beltran fish cannery, to allocate 150,000 soles to finance the batukada organized by the Perú Libre party. And he replied, according to Sanchez: “Yes, let me see something and we’ll close it at lunch.”

The report states that Beltran indicated in a previous meeting that he could take care of all government social programs that provide food for the population, such as Kali Varma.

Those involved speak out

Faced with the complaint, Marcela Saldarriaga stated that there would be “repercussions” against those people who “slandered” her. “I saw Mr. Beltrán once or twice during the Club Apurímac campaign. And one day he invited us to dine at a restaurant because he was so insistent on wanting to talk to Dina Boluarte, and I didn’t build bridges with anyone. It seems to me that Mr. Beltrán had business interests, as did the vast majority of corrupt businessmen presenting themselves to politicians,” he said.

For its part, the Government Palace in a letter fourth forceclaimed that the President Dina Boluarte “He does not know ‘Eduwigis Beltran’ and therefore did not participate in that meeting.”

“Henry Shimabukuro and Maritza Sanchez were sent by Pedro Castillo to ostensibly help Dina Boluarte in the campaign. The tasks they carried out were coordinated with the team of Pedro Castillo. They saw some logistical issues, such as feeding campaign staff. Dina Boluarte had nothing to do with these logistics operations, purchases or donations,” he said.

In addition, the executive assured that “they have never been close to the candidate.” “Within a short time, she decided to remove them from her campaign activities,” he added.