Peru Court Studies Appeal of Fujimori Verdicts

Peru’s Supreme Court began today to evaluate ex-president Alberto Fujimori’s appeal to annul the verdicts handed down to him earlier this year, for the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta murders, and in the corruption and kidnapping trial. Fujimori’s attorney, César Nakasaki, is requesting to annul the 25 year sentence given to Fujimori in April this [...]

Peru’s Fujimori accepts charges, effectively avoids retelling of crimes

At the opening of his fourth trial on Monday, Peru’s former President Alberto Fujimori accepted the charges of telephone espionage, bribery of congress members, and illegal “buying” of news media carried out during his 1990-2000 administration. By accepting the charges, Fujimori has guaranteed that the trial will be brief –a verdict is to be handed [...]

Peru’s Fujimori sentenced to 7½ years in prison for corruption and bribery

Former President Alberto Fujimori – already serving a 25-year sentence meted out last April for sanctioning a paramilitary death squad – was found guilty Monday of corruption and bribery. The court sentenced Fujimori to 7½ years, to run concurrently with the longer prison term. “This was not a political sentence,” said Chief Judge César San [...]

Fujimori’s corruption trial opens in Lima

Former President Alberto Fujimori – sentenced to 25 years of prison last April for sanctioning a paramilitary death squad – is back in court, now facing corruption charges. Fujimori, 70, is accused of illegally channeling nearly $15 million in government funds as a bonus to his spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos. The money was transferred just [...]

Vladimiro Montesinos’ trial for corruption resumes after short suspension

Peru’s former spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos’ trial resumed on Monday, about two weeks after it was suspended when some of his co-defendants stopped showing up for trial. Montesinos and four former members of Peru’s National Election Board, or JNE, are currently on trial for corruption and illicit association to commit a felony. The trial was [...]

More than 7,000 government employees charged with corruption in Peru

Legal proceedings against more than 7,000 allegedly corrupt government employees — including army generals, police chiefs, mayors and regents — are currently underway in Peru, daily la República reported Friday. Since January 2009, more than 1,900 complaints have been registered for acts of corruption — up from 1,274 cases in 2008. Approximately 72 percent of [...]

OPINION: The Innocence of the Guilty

By José Luis Mejía All politicians are guilty, or almost all of them. If they were judged by a court made up of good men (in the true sense of the word) –as the Spanish poet Antonio Machado would say—nine out of ten would land up, bones and crimes, in jail. Power corrupts and few [...]

Peru Army’s Controversial Commander General to Resign in December

General Edwin Donayre, who has been in the headlines regarding a corruption investigation into the misuse of gasoline allotments, announced Sunday in his native Ayacucho that he will be leaving his post as commander general of the Peruvian Army on December 5. During the civic-military ceremony, the controversial and flamboyant general also blamed the press [...]

Peru annuls five Discover Petroleum oil contracts amid alleged concession kickbacks

A full-fledged scandal over alleged oil kickbacks has forced the ouster of Peru’s Energy and Mines Minister Juan Valdivia, as well as two top state oil company executives, and led the government to suspend five joint exploration and development contracts recently awarded to state-owned oil company Petroperu and Discover Petroleum of Norway. “We consider it very [...]

Former congressman extradited from U.S. to face charges of forgery and embezzlement

Oscar Medelius, extradited from the United States on Friday, is appearing before the anticorruption court today to face charges of forgery of documents, embezzlement and illicit association that stem from his alleged involvement in a massive election fraud scheme in 2000. The trial, which includes six other defendants, is scheduled to begin before the end [...]

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