Alberto Fujimori transferred to a clinic in Lima due to low oxygen saturation

The former president of Peru Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) was transferred Friday evening to a clinic in Lima for treatment for a drop in oxygen saturation in the blood.His lawyer, César Nakasaki, said this Saturday.

The lawyer said on Twitter that Fujimori, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence for crimes against humanity, present “A serious oxygen saturation problem” that could not be overcome with the care he received in prison.

Nakasaki targeted the Peruvian Minister of Justice, Annibal torres, as the prison medical staff were unable to resolve his health problem. “What part of the prison is ‘golden’? “the lawyer wondered.

Torres recently assured that the former dictator would be transferred to a maximum security prison.

Congressman Alejandro Aguinaga placeholder image, who is Fujimori’s personal physician, added to the newspaper Trade who remains hospitalized at the clinic because the saturation problem “is recurrent” in recent months.

“He was transferred to a clinic last night. I was desaturating. Recently, for at least four months, you have had times when your saturation drops a lot and you are practically dependent on oxygen in the late afternoon“, He detailed.

Aguinaga said that the health problems of Fujimori, 83, are being taken care of by the Lima prison nurses in which he is serving his sentence, but when the incident continues, you must be transferred to a clinic.

Friday, The Peruvian government has approved six requests to Chile to extend his extradition, so that he can be prosecuted for murder, grievous bodily harm, kidnapping and corruption offenses..

Fujimori was arrested in 2005 in Chile and extradited to Peru in 2007 to be treated by corruption and crimes against humanity, which resulted in several convictions, including 25 years in prison for the massacres of Barrios Altos and La Cantuta, committed in 1991 and 1992, respectively, by the secret military group hill.

Since extradition responds to an international cooperation mechanism, the country holding the person under investigation must approve the cases for which they will be treated at destination.

In this sense, the resolutions calling for the extension of extradition have been endorsed by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Justice, and include the investigations into other homicides committed by the Colina group.

In addition, by alleged extrajudicial execution during the rescue, in 1997, of hostages taken by the Revolutionary Movement Tupac Amaru (MRTA) at the residence of the Japanese Ambassador in 1997, the kidnapping and disappearance of a fugitive from justice, as well as by corruption offenses as an illicit association to commit a crime and deliberate embezzlement to the detriment of the Peruvian state.

Extradition extension requests have been made by the Second Supraprovincial Criminal Court and five special criminal courts of the Superior Court of Justice in Lima.

(With information from EFE)

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