Overview

• A Cuarto Poder report cited itemized receipts showing petty‑cash buys for shirts, polos and blouses across 2024–2025, plus a S/199 clothes steamer and repeated laundry services including the ministerial sash.
• Documents reviewed by outlets report 3,094 packages of cookies purchased and more than S/8,300 spent on food, hygiene and kitchen items such as coffee, nuts, soda, water, pepper, flor de jamaica and olive oil.
• Specific clothing purchases documented include two shirts and four polos on April 9, 2024, additional shirts on April 18, and further blouses and dress shirts in December 2024, with more shirts recorded in January and April 2025.
• In an official communiqué, the Ministry of Education said the supplies were for protocol attention at work meetings and described the garments as institutional attire available to senior staff for unplanned official activities.
• The ministry announced new spending caps and internal controls, while administrative‑law specialists argued such expenses do not fit petty‑cash rules and urged audits by oversight bodies, with no formal probe outcome reported.