Alberto Fujimori
 Alberto Fujimori    (politician) | ||||||||||||
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| Born | Alberto Fujimori Fujimori 26 July 1938 Lima, Peru | |||||||||||
| Died | 11 September 2024 (Age 86) Lima, Peru | |||||||||||
| Citizenship | Peruvian, Japanese | |||||||||||
| Alma mater | La Molina National Agrarian University, University of Strasbourg, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee | |||||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | |||||||||||
| Children | • Keiko Fujimori • Hiro Alberto Sachi Marcela • Kenji Fujimori | |||||||||||
| Spouse | Susana Higuchi | |||||||||||
Notoriously corrupt President of Peru, 1990-2000. The first elected head of state to be extradited to his home country, tried, and convicted of human rights violations.
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Alberto Kenya Fujimori Inomoto was a Peruvian politician, professor, and engineer who was president of Peru from 1990 to 2000. His handler Vladimiro Montesinos assisted him in becoming leader of Peru's government in 1990.
Punishment
In April 2009, Fujimori was convicted of human rights violations and sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in murders and kidnappings by the Grupo Colina death squad during his government's battle against leftist guerrillas in the 1990s. The verdict delivered by a three-judge panel marked the first time that an elected head of state has been extradited to his home country, tried, and convicted of human rights violations. Fujimori was specifically found guilty of murder, bodily harm, and two cases of kidnapping.[1][2][3][4][5]
In July 2009 Fujimori was sentenced to 7 and a half years in prison for embezzlement, after he admitted to giving $15 million out of the Peruvian treasury to the former intelligence service chief, Vladimiro Montesinos.[6] Two months later in a fourth trial, he pleaded guilty to bribery and was given an additional six-year term.[7] Under Peruvian law all the sentences must run concurrently, with a maximum length of imprisonment of 25 years.
References
- ↑ Emery, Alex. Peru’s Fujimori Found Guilty on Human Rights Charges, Bloomberg News, 7 April 2009. Accessed 7 April 2009.
- ↑ http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN0746237820090407
- ↑ Fujimori declared guilty of human rights abuses (Spanish).
- ↑ Peru court finds ex-president Fujimori guilty
- ↑ Fujimori gets 25 years on conviction in human rights case, Boston.com 8 April 2009
- ↑ Fujimori convicted of corruption, BBC.com, 20 July 2009
- ↑ Fujimori pleads guilty to bribery, BBC.com, 28 September 2009
