Peruvian suspected in 2000 voter fraud arrested in N.C.

[Judi Lynn]

Peruvian suspected in 2000 voter fraud arrested in N.C.

02/09/2006

Associated Press

A man wanted in Peru on charges of voter fraud during the 2000 re-election of former president Alberto Fujimori was arrested in North Carolina, federal marshals said.

Oscar Eliseo Medelius-Rodriguez, 50, of Hampstead, was arrested Tuesday morning without incident in Wilmington, the U.S. Marshals Service said in a prepared statement. He was awaiting extradition Wednesday at the New Hanover County jail.

Medelius-Rodriguez faces charges under Peruvian law of falsifying documents, falsifying documentary evidence, general misrepresentation, embezzlement and delinquent association, the marshals service said.

Fujimori's 10-year autocratic rule fell apart in 2000 after a vote tainted by fraud allegations and the weight of growing scandals. He fled to Japan, his ancestral homeland, where he spent five years in exile before attempting a return to Peru last year. He has been detained in Chile since November.
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http://www.wcnc.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8FL8MRO7.html

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He may have believed people wanted for vote fraud are safe in the U.S.

[phoebe]

1. no mention made that he was VP of Justice Commission protecting prisoners

of conscience according to Amnesty International.

So what is this really all about? We know that Fujimori plans to run again. The US appears to be facilitating, using this man as a pawn.

http://www.amnestyusa.org/justearth/document.do?id=54647321094DCB3780256900006933C2

snip

Eight months later, in July 1995, the Ministry of Justice also presented a draft law to Congress. This proposed the creation of a Special Commission charged with "assessing and proposing to Congress <...> the granting of an amnesty to people facing trial or convicted of crimes of treason or terrorism on the basis of uncorroborated information provided by those availing themselves of the Repentance Law." The grounds for the draft law were that there had been "trials and convictions based on uncorroborated or frankly fraudulent information, provided with the malicious intention of benefitting from the Law, and then rejoining the armed opposition."

The draft laws presented by: congressman Jorge Avendaño on 16 October 1995; by congressmen Javier Díaz Canseco, Gustavo Mohme Llona, Ernesto Gamarra Olivares, Rolando Breña Pantoja, Alejandro Santa Maria Silva, Manuel Layo Lazo, Víctor Daniel Coral Pérez and Roger Cáceres Velázquez on 20 October 1995 (all members of opposition parties); and by the vice-president of the Justice Commission, Oscar Medelius Rodríguez, on 5 December 1995, also expressed concern at the effects of the Repentance Law on prisoners unjustly accused, charged and convicted of terrorism-related crimes. These draft laws also proposed the establishment of a Special Commission that would assess applications for review of convictions for crimes of terrorism.


The latest Peruvian government has been under attack since last year.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4511513.stm

No doubt more of *'s anti- Latin America scheming..

[mom cat]

2. What a shame. He would have had such a good future with Diebold.

[phoebe]

3. he is a pawn - Amnesty International listed him as a prisoner of

conscience for defying Fujimori.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Interesting information you've uncovered.

Fujimori should have had far more people standing against him. What a truly unpleasant, unwholesome "leader." Death squads, yet.