The investigation against Dina Boluarte for irregular funding is political and “illegal,” her lawyer says.

On March 28, the Ministry of Public Information ordered an investigation into President Dina Boluarte, the former president. Pedro Castillo and businessman Henry Shimabukuro for the alleged crimes of prohibited financing of political organizations, money laundering and criminal organization.

In the previous Shimabukuro admitted to funding part of the campaign Boluarte Zegarra in the second round of the 2021 election campaign. Although the businessman presented tickets and ballots confirming his contribution, the head of state repeatedly denied this version.

After the start of the investigation initiated by the prosecutor’s office, the president’s lawyer, Joseph Campos, clarified in News extension that legally and politically there is no term for vice presidential campaigns because, according to his explanation, the Political Parties Act clearly distinguishes between presidential, congressional, state and municipal campaigns.

For this reason, the lawyer pointed out that “what we have seen so far turns out to be more of a political effort than a legal one. “Legally there are no vice presidential campaigns,” he said.

Campos says that the only one who is funded during the election campaign is the presidential candidate.

In this sense, Campos, who takes on the legal defense of a high-profile figure in an investigation into the alleged crime of genocide, believes that the alleged costs incurred Shimabukuro in favor boluartthey wouldn’t be set up as funding because – he repeated – “the only one funded in the campaign” is the presidential candidate.

“What we have seen are reports that revolve around people who are clearly from the environment Henry Shimabukurolike Henry Shimabukuro and Maritza Sanchez, who have never been refused by the President of the Republic…,” he said.

“… the president said she knew them; what happens is that they are not part of their financiers, because – I insist – the only one who is funded in the presidential campaign is the president, ”he added.

In addition, counsel considered that the alleged costs incurred Shimabukuro should have reported Maritza Sanchez, a former assistant Boluarte Zegarra during the 2021 election campaign to the treasurer of the political party Peru Libre.

“All candidates are mobilized throughout the country, because presidential candidates mobilize the entire country. So, when various resources come, what should you have done Maritza Sanchez – in charge of being the eyes and ears of Pedro Castillo in Dina Boluarte’s entourage – should inform the treasurer,” he repeated.

“Any situation or contribution, according to the law, goes to the presidential campaign and is responsible for one person, who is the treasurer. [del partido]he added

On another occasion, Joseph Campos left open the possibility that Henry Shimabukurounder investigation in the Shadow Cabinet case, is an alleged political figure of the detained former president Pedro Castillo.

“[¿Shimabukuro es un operador de Castillo que busca hacerle daño a Boluarte?] It makes sense because it is clear that we are going to establish a political interpretation of this political accusation,” the lawyer said, noting that it is striking that the complaints are being filed in a context where mobilization is declining.