Elections in Peru: they asked for preventive detention …

As the vote count continues to keep him away from the possibility of acceding to the presidency of Peru, Keiko Fujimori receives more bad news: the country’s anti-corruption prosecution demands that his parole be revoked from which he benefits and that he is placed in preventive detention.

The request was presented by the head of this national body and member of Lava Jato’s special team, prosecutor José Domingo Pérez, at a time when the far-right candidate is fighting in the vote with Pedro Castillo.

Fujimori charged with the crime of money laundering and the anti-corruption prosecutor maintains that she violated rules imposed by a higher court, in the resolution which ordered her release in 2020.

One of those violations is communicating with witnesses linked to a case in which she is the protagonist of alleged illicit contributions to her 2011 and 2016 campaigns.

“Defendant Fujimori Higuchi was again convicted of violating the ban on contacting witnesses.; therefore, it has been noted as a public and notorious fact that he communicates with the witness Miguel Torres Morales ”, reads the request published by the daily Lima El Comercio.

The fact that the prosecutor denounces came during a press conference that took place last night, where the candidate introduced Torres Morales as lawyer and political spokesperson for Fuerza Popular, since he had been proposed as a prosecution witness .

A few minutes after the filing of the preventive detention order against the canidata, Torres Morales has denied having witnessed this case. Immediately afterwards, prosecutor Pérez clarified that the man had declared as such In front of her office, September 3, 2020. Giulliana Loza, Keiko Fujimori’s lawyer, also participated in this procedure.

The requirement includes screenshots of the press conference in which the presidential candidate is seen with Miguel Torres report on the presentation to the electoral authorities so that the 200,000 or so votes already admitted in the official counting of the presidential ballot are declared void.

The official tally updated at 11 a.m. (Argentine time) indicates that when 99.136% of the electoral registers are counted, Castillo, of Peru Libre, collects 50,204 percent of valid votes and Fujimori reaches 49,796.