Peruvian police to take
Fujimori home from Chile
Peruvian police
dispatched a plane
Friday night to take
former President Alberto
Fujimori back from Chile
to stand trial on human
rights violations and
corruption charges.
The plane, with Peru's
General Director of
National Police David
Rodriguez and four
Interpol officers and
doctors aboard, is
expected to arrive in
Santiago early Saturday
morning.
Keiko Fujimori, daughter
of the 69-year-old
ex-president, was
waiting for his arrival
together with his
supporters at Lima's
international airport.
The move came just hours
after Chile's Supreme
Court ordered Fujimori's
extradition. The final
verdict was taken by
judges Alberto Chaigneau,
Jaime Espoz, Hugo
Dolmestch, Ruben
Ballesteros and Nibaldo
Segura.
Friday's ruling overrode
the first verdict on
July 11 by Judge Orlando
Alvarez which rejected
Peru's extradition
request.
The Peruvian government
had requested
extradition of the
former president for his
role in a massacre
during a prison riot in
Lima in 1992.
Analysts said the
request, based on the
prison massacre in which
at least 42 inmates were
killed, would prevent
Fujimori from escaping
to Japan after his trial
in Chile.
Fujimori, Peru's
president from 1990 to
2000, fled Peru in
2000amid a corruption
scandal. He arrived in
Chile in November 2005,
ending a five-year exile
in Japan.
Before the extradition,
he was under house
arrest in an exclusive
condominium on the
outskirts of the Chilean
capital.
During his stay in
Chile, Fujimori holding
both Japanese and
Peruvian nationalities
unsuccessfully ran for
the Japanese Senate. |
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