Peru judge rejects request to return presidential hopeful Fujimori to detention
A judge in Peru has dismissed a prosecutor’s request to return presidential hopeful Keiko Fujimori — who is on trial for corruption — to detention for allegedly violating her provisional freedom measures.
Judge Victor Zuniga on Monday declined a request by Prosecutor Jose Domingo Perez to rescind Fujimori’s parole because she met a witness in her trial and thus purportedly failed to comply with her bail conditions.
Miguel Angel Torres, a witness in the corruption case, earlier accompanied Fujimori to a press conference as an adviser. However, Zuniga claimed that since the presidential hopeful had not been given a warning beforehand, the claim that her bail conditions had been violated was “without foundation.”
Fujimori, the eldest daughter of the imprisoned former president Alberto Fujimori, was conditionally freed in May last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The bail came after a 16-month pre-trial detention over charges of money laundering and receiving 1.2 million dollars from Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht. The fund was allegedly spent in her lost presidential campaigns in 2011 and 2016. She denies the charges.
Fujimori lost to socialist Pedro Castillo in the second round of the latest presidential vote on June 6. Castillo won with 44,000 more votes, according to unconfirmed vote counts.
However, Fujimori has refused to admit defeat and allegedly claimed that up to 200,000 votes were tampered with, without providing public evidence. She has called on her supporters to come forward with evidence of fraud on Twitter.
Castillo has firmly rejected the calls for the election to be annulled. Over the weekend, the supporters of both candidates took to the streets, asking for an end to the uncertainty around the election.
Fujimori’s corruption trial will be delayed until after her term if she wins the election.
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