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Peru Opposition Leader Keiko Fujimori Held on Graft Charges
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Oct 13, 2018 09:27pm |
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| Category | Scandal |
| Author | John Quigley |
| News Date | Wednesday, October 10, 2018 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Peruvian opposition leader Keiko Fujimori was arrested by police Wednesday on allegations she received illicit campaign financing, marking an unexpected turn in a year-long probe of the two-time presidential candidate.
A court approved her detention for 10 days, arguing she posed a flight risk and could obstruct the prosecutors’ investigation, Peru’s judiciary said via Twitter on Wednesday. She was ordered detained along with 19 other people including her former campaign chief Jaime Yoshiyama.
The decision marks the second high-profile judicial move against Peru’s influential Fujimori family in a week, and yet another twist to a tumultuous year for the country. Last Wednesday, a court ordered the imprisonment of autocrat Alberto Fujimori, Keiko’s father, after overturning a political pardon.
Prosecutors are probing accusations that Keiko, who was a runner-up in Peru’s last two presidential elections, received illicit donations from Brazilian builder Odebrecht SA for her 2011 campaign. That firm is at the center of the Carwash bribery investigation, which has ensnared Peru’s last four heads of state. Former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigned in March after facing allegations that a firm he owned also took money from Odebrecht SA, which has doled out millions of dollars in bribes across Latin America. |
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