2023-06-02 05:01:00
Former Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori, her ex-husband Mark Vito Villanella and six other collaborators of her right-wing party Fuerza Popular will not be able to leave the country for 36 months, according to an order from the judge who is investigating them for alleged money laundering. The measure by Judge Víctor Zúñiga, of the Fourth Court of the National Court, precedes the start of the oral trial against the opposition leader that will be announced in the coming days and in which Fujimori faces a request from the prosecutor’s office for 30 years in prison as alleged head of a criminal organization.
The daughter of the dictator Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), who has already been in pretrial detention twice, is accused of money laundering, a crime related to case “Cocktails” for the alleged illegal contributions in his electoral campaigns of 2011 and 2016. The judge ordered a series of rules of conduct for Fujimori and other investigated, such as the prohibition not to change the tax address without prior judicial authorization and not to communicate with the rest of the defendants , witnesses or experts.
They also have to appear every 30 days in the biometric control registry to register their fingerprint and inform the court of their activities, appear at the summons of the Prosecutor’s Office and the court each time they are summoned for any proceeding. Finally, he imposed an economic guarantee on Fujimori’s ex-husband, Mark Villanella, of 10,000 soles (2,700 dollars).
The Cocktails case, which receives the name of the events that Fuerza Popular organized to raise funds for Fujimori’s presidential campaigns, has 41 alleged implicates. It is related to the money laundering around the construction company Odebrecht and has been investigated by the Lava Jato Special Team of the Public Ministry of Peru.
After two years of investigation, the Prosecutor’s Office made this request for imprisonment in 2021 as a result of the accusation made for the alleged crimes of organized crime, money laundering, obstruction of justice and false declaration in administrative proceedings. This accusation also includes Fuerza Popular and the company MVV Bienes Raíces SAC as defendants so that, in the event of a conviction, their dissolution and liquidation is requested.
Among the defendants are Jaime Yoshiyama and José Chlimper, who were ministers during the dictatorship of Fujimori, Keiko’s father, in the 1990s. Despite the suspicions surrounding Fujimori and his collaborators, Judge Zúñiga ended up denying the claim. of the Public Ministry to impose judicial surveillance on the Fuerza Popular party for the next three years.
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