“The president … flatly rejects and denies the complaint,” lawyer Jonatan Valenzuela said in a statement, referring to an alleged incident in 2013.

The complaint was filed on September 6 at the local prosecutor’s office in Magallanes, in the far south of Chile, where Boric is from.

Cristian Crisosto, who heads the Magallanes Prosecutor’s Office, confirmed “there is a criminal case related to the listed facts”, adding that there was a special team at the agency investigating the complaint.

According to Valenzuela, the complaint was filed by a woman who at the time sent Boric 25 “unsolicited and non-consensual” emails, including one with explicit images.

More than 10 years later, the woman “filed a complaint without any basis against the current president Gabriel Boric”.

Boric, now 38, was 27 at the time and had just finished his law degree.

“My client has never had an emotional or friendship relationship with her and has not communicated since July 2014,” Valenzuela added.

The charge against Boric comes as his administration grapples with a separate sex abuse scandal after ex-crime czar and former deputy interior minister Manuel Monsalve was arrested this month on suspicion of raping his underling.

Boric, who is ineligible to run for re-election after his four-year presidential term ends in 2026, has special immunity and must first undergo impeachment proceedings by the Justice Department before being formally investigated.