Peru really picks the winners: "Fujimori to face yet another trial"

[Judi Lynn]

Latest Update: Sunday9/8/2009August, 2009, 12:03 AM Doha Time
Fujimori to face yet another trial
AFP/Lima

Peru’s disgraced former president Alberto Fujimori will face his fourth trial since he was extradited from Chile in 2007, Peruvian judicial sources said on Friday.

The special tribunal in charge of judging the ex-president has gathered in one trial, set to start on September 28, several cases that cover wiretapping, the “purchasing” of opposition legislators, and news media manipulation.

Fujimori, 71, faces charges that include misappropriating public funds, corruption of government employees, and violation of the privacy of communications.

The prosecution is calling for eight years in prison and reparations of $1.65mn, as well as $1mn in reparations to those affected by phone tapping.

Fujimori, president 1990-2000, was sentenced in April to 25 years in prison for authorising a secret army death squad to kill 25 people and ordering the kidnapping of a businessman and a journalist in the early 1990s.

In a separate trial ending July 20, Fujimori was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for embezzlement. And in a December 2007 trial Fujimori was found guilty of abuse of power and sentenced to six years in prison.

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