Former Peruvian leader
Fujimori extradited to
Peru to face trial
Former Peruvian leader
Alberto Fujimori was
taken back to Peru by
police on Saturday to
face charges of
corruption and human
rights abuse after seven
years in exile.
The plane taking the
69-year-old ex-president
landed at a military
airport in Lima's
suburbs at 4:38 pm local
time (2138 GMT). He was
later helicoptered to a
temporary police cell in
the east of Lima.
Fujimori will not stay
long in the cell, Peru's
Interior Minister Luis
Alva said, adding that
the country's national
prison administration
will prepare another
place of detention,
where Fujimori will stay
until the end of the
trial.
If convicted of the
charges, the former
Peruvian leader might
have to spend the rest
of his life in prison,
Peru's local media said.
Fujimori was brought
back one day after
Chile's Supreme Court
handed down the final
verdict on him,
recognizing seven of
Peru's 13 charges
against him, including
two counts of human
rights abuses and five
counts of corruption
charges, and agreeing to
Peru's extradition
request.
Fujimori served as
Peru's president from
1990 to 2000. He fled
the country in 2000 amid
a corruption scandal. In
November 2005, he
arrived in Chile, ending
a five-year exile in
Japan where he was
protected because he
also has Japanese
citizenship.
Before the extradition,
he was under house
arrest at a suburban
residence in the Chilean
capital.
During his stay in
Chile, Fujimori
unsuccessfully ran for
the Japanese Senate. |
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