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Peru: Petition for clarification on Keiko Fujimori's release declared inadmissible

16:47 | Lima, Dec. 4.

Peru's Constitutional Court (TC) on Wednesday declared inadmissible the petition for clarification —filed by Judicial Branch Attorney Marco Palomino— over its resolution confirming the release of Fuerza Popular (Popular Force) party leader Keiko Fujimori.

The ruling was signed by magistrates Ernesto Blume, Carlos Ramos, Jose Luis Sardon, and Augusto Ferrero Costa.

As is known, former Congresswoman and ex-presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori left the women's prison facility in Lima's Chorrillos district last Friday after being held in preventive detention for nearly 13 months over alleged money laundering offenses related to the corruption-tainted Brazilian company Odebrecht.

Constitutional Court


The decision was adopted during a plenary session held that day at the TC headquarters. 

The presentation on the habeas corpus in favor of Fuerza Popular party leader's freedom was in charge of TC Chairman Ernesto Blume.


TC members Ernesto Blume, Jose Luis Sardon, Augusto Ferrero Costa, and Carlos Ramos voted in favor of the habeas corpus. For their part, Eloy Espinosa-Saldaña, Manuel Miranda, and Marianella Ledesma voted against the petition.

Such appeal was filed last July by Sachi Fujimori —sister of the former presidential candidate— with the purpose of annulling the preventive detention order.

In the habeas corpus, the relative sued the Second Criminal Court of National Appeals Chair Cesar Sahuanay, who ratified —in second instance— the preventive detention order against the former Congresswoman.

Preventive detention


Back then, the Judicial Branch declared well-founded the request made by the Prosecutor's Office to imprison Fujimori because of the danger of obstruction of justice that implied keeping her free.



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Publicado: 4/12/2019