{"id":9889,"date":"2021-06-11T10:14:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T02:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=9889"},"modified":"2021-06-11T10:14:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T02:14:08","slug":"peruvian-prosecutor-requests-new-preventive-detention-of-keiko-fujimori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=9889","title":{"rendered":"Peruvian prosecutor requests new preventive detention of Keiko Fujimori"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

LIMA, June 11 — Peru’s anti-corruption prosecutor Jose Domingo Perez on Thursday asked the judiciary to order a new pre-trial detention of presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori to prevent her from interfering in an ongoing investigation, Xinhua reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It has been determined once again that the defendant Fujimori Higuchi does not comply with the restriction of not communicating with witnesses,” Perez said in a petition to Judge Victor Zuniga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fujimori, who is under investigation in relation to the case of Odebrecht, one of the largest bribery and graft scandals in Latin America, “is communicating with Miguel Torres Morales,” a witness to alleged illegal campaign financing for Fujimori’s 2011 and 2016 presidential bids, according to Perez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Perez noted that during a televised conference of Fujimori’s Popular Force party on Wednesday, Torres appeared alongside Keiko, as a lawyer and spokesperson for the political organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference, Torres said the party would move to annul the results of 802 polling stations in Sunday’s presidential runoff due to alleged irregularities in the electoral process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far, Fujimori’s rival Pedro Castillo, of the left-leaning Free Peru party, is leading the vote count, though by a razor-thin margin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Torres denied witnessing any illicit activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori is accused of having received US$1.2 million in campaign funding from Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, which has admitted to systematically bribing officials and politicians throughout the region in exchange for lucrative government contracts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keiko Fujimori spent more than a year in preventive detention between October 2018 and May 2020, at the request of the prosecutor’s office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With 99.99 per cent of the ballots tabulated, she trails Castillo with 49.79 per cent of the votes as against the latter’s 50.20 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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