Supreme Court confirms Fujimori’s sentence for corruption

The Supreme Court has turned down an appeal by former President Alberto Fujimori and confirmed the sentence of seven and a half years for a conviction on corruption. The Court also ordered the payment of S/.3 million (just over US$1 m) as civil reparation to the State, which is to be paid by Fujimori and [...]

Executive sends to Congress bill to repeal decree 1097 following Vargas Llosa resignation from Memory Museum

In a letter sent to President Alan Garcia, Vargas Llosa said the decree “in all forms, constitutes an amnesty barely disguised to benefit a good number of people connected to the dictatorship and convicted or prosecuted for human rights crimes – murders, tortures, disappearances – among them the ex-dictator [Alberto Fujimori] and his right-hand man [Vladimiro Montesinos].”

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 [...]

Fujimori says he is innocent of human rights violations, points finger at García and Belaunde Terry

By Annie Thériault Former President Alberto Fujimori took the stand in his own defense Friday, tackling the prosecution’s allegations that he is guilty of sanctioning the Colina Group and of failing to prevent human rights violations committed during his 1990-2000 rule, and pointed fingers at Peru President Alan García and former President Fernando Belaunde Terry. “Where [...]

Fujimori’s former spy chief testifies he is innocent of sanctioning death squad

Ex-President Alberto Fujimori’s once-feared intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, testified Monday that his former boss is innocent of charges he sanctioned the Colina group paramilitary death squad. Fujimori, 69, could hardly contain a grin as his former spy chief depicted him as a “courageous” hero who defeated a bloody leftist insurgency and lifted Peru from its [...]

Fujimori gets an eight-day break from human rights abuse trial for treatment of pre-cancerous mouth lesion

Jailed ex-President Alberto Fujimori will get an eight-day break from his human rights abuse trial for allegedly sanctioning a paramilitary dead squad during his decade-long authoritarian regime so that doctors can treat him for a pre-cancerous lesion in his mouth.

Former third man from the top of the Peruvian army hierarchy says Fujimori is guilty of sanctioning death squad

The former third highest ranking officer in Peru’s army testified yesterday that ex-President Alberto Fujimori is directly to blame for the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta massacres, carried out by the Colina group paramilitary death squad. “The President of the Republic, in this case the accused, Fujimori, is the one who decides what type of [...]

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