Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori died on Wednesday at the age of 86 at his home in Lima, having benefited from a pardon that allowed him to leave prison. His death has also interrupted other trials against him, for which thousands of victims are still awaiting compensation.
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Forced sterilizations, the massacre of six peasants, the sale of weapons to the demobilized FARC and a corruption case are the most remembered cases that have surrounded the former president in recent years.
1. Forced sterilizations
In the Fujimori regime it was designed and presented a birth control plan that aimed to reduce poverty rates and birth rates among the rural and jungle population of Peru, in order to improve the country’s economic conditions.
However, this plan gave priority to so-called voluntary surgical contraception (VSC), mainly among women, without complying with the protocols of prior information, willingness and adequate conditions, and imposing “quotas” for doctors in charge of the operations.
This case has been opened and archived several times in Peru since the events were reported and has included, in addition to Fujimori, among those responsible, the then Ministers of Health for having allegedly given instructions for the execution of this program, with incentives for the medical personnel who participated.
Last August, the Peruvian courts confirmed the annulment of the criminal charges against the former president, which nullified all the proceedings and procedural acts carried out between 2021 and 2023. This decision, as reported by local media at the time, confirmed that the case had to return to the stage of filing a criminal complaint by the Prosecutor’s Office, that is, until March 2019.
2. The Pativilca case
Eternally associated with Fujimori is his former presidential adviser Vladimiro Montesinos, the “strong man” of his government, who was sentenced last January to 19 years and 8 months in prison for the massacres of Pativilca and La Cantuta, committed in 1992 by the undercover military group Colina.
Judge Miluska Cano, who presides over the Fourth National Superior Criminal Court, then stated that This sentence is considered “purged” (already served) because the former advisor has been in prison since January 2001 and in this case he accepted the “mediate authorship” (with control of the fact) of the commission of the crimes of qualified homicide, murder and forced disappearance..
The prosecution has asked that all those involved in this trial, including Fujimori, Montesinos and 21 others, be sentenced to a minimum of 25 years in prison.
The other defendants did not accept the legal concept of “early conclusion” and therefore had to continue being tried.
3. Arms sales to the FARC
Fujimori, who resigned in 2000 by fax from Japan, the country of his parents’ birth and whose nationality he claimed, could not be transferred to Peru because the Asian country does not extradite its nationals. That is why the former president was arrested during an unexpected visit to Chile.
From that moment on, any new case had to be approved by the Chilean courts. The Peruvian Attorney General’s Office announced last January that the Supreme Court of the southern country had approved a request to expand the crimes for which Fujimori was extradited in 2007.
Although he did not clarify what crimes were involved, Local media reported that the illegal sale of weapons to the now demobilized guerrilla group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 1999.
In this case, he is accused of alleged crimes against public safety (illegal supply of firearms) and against public tranquility (criminal conspiracy).
4. Chavimochic
As the newspaper recalled, The Tradethere has also been an accusation against Fujimori for the ‘Chavimochic Case’.
In this process, The former president was accused of having authorized the use of $800,000 in public funds for a friend of his, Augusto Miyagusuku, to buy agricultural land in the Chavimochic irrigation project.in the northern department of La Libertad.
According to the newspaper, which cited the prosecution, the purchase of the land “was a direct result of the criminal activities in which the defendant Miyagusuku and Alberto Fujimori participated, with the former acting as a front man for the latter.”
Additionally, and with less progress so far, Fujimori was wanted for other cases such as the alleged extrajudicial executions in the Castro Castro prison (1992) and after the rescue at the residence of the Japanese ambassador in Lima (1997) or the kidnapping and murder of six members of the Ventocilla familycommitted in 1992 by the Colina group.
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