Peruvian justice will analyze the opening of the trial of Keiko Fujimori

The Peruvian Judiciary will begin monitoring the charges against former presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori on August 31 to determine whether he is being prosecuted on the money laundering tax charge during his election campaigns in 2011 and 2016.

The decision was taken by Judge Víctor Zúñiga, magistrate of the Fourth Criminal Court of Preparatory Investigation specializing in organized crime, local media reported on Friday.

Zúñiga communicated its decision at the end of the evaluation phase of the criminal complaint filed against Fujimori and others involved in the investigation led by prosecutor José Domingo Pérez, a member of the special team in the Lava Jato case in Peru.

The magistrate He specified that the prosecution’s control sessions will last until September 1 and will be “not postponed”., who has already informed the prosecution as well as all parties involved in the process.

Pérez presented a charge on March 11 for the alleged commission of the crimes of money laundering and criminal organization against Fujimori, After an investigation that lasted more than two years, and demanded that the leader of the Fuerza Popular party be sentenced to 30 years and 10 months in prison,

The indictment, which comprises over 15,000 pages, pointed out that Fujimori had concealed, through fictitious accounts, donations from large companies, as $ 3.6 million from Credicorp and $ 1 million from construction company Odebrecht to fund his election campaigns in 2011 and 2016.

Pérez included in his accusation 40 people, including Fujimori’s husband, Mark Vito Villanella, for whom he required 22 years and 8 months in prison, as well as several leaders of Fuerza Popular and relatives of the former candidate.

Fujimori lost the three consecutive presidential elections he ran for, in 2011 against the nationalist Ollanta Humala, in 2016 against the right-hander Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and this year against the leftist Pedro Castillo.

CASTLE WITH POWERS

The National Jury of Elections of Peru (JNE) filed this Friday the credentials as president-elect to Pedro Castillo, leader of Free Peru, and its vice-president Dina boluarte during a ceremony where the new president launched a message in favor of national unity politically and socially.

The event took place in the auditorium The Incas of the Ministry of Culture and there have been different leaders of the country’s electoral bodies. “In this government, no one is left behind, and for that I am extremely grateful, and I want to tell you that I feel empowered and engaged. Long live the Peruvian peopleSaid Castillo, who also claimed that neither he nor his executive are “Chavists, not Communists, not extremists, let alone terrorists.”

In this sense, he expressed that he will work to fight terrorism in the country and called for national unity between political parties, businessmen, unions, university students and other sectors of Peruvian civil society, reported Trade.

(With information from Efe)

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