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Peru: Judiciary revokes Keiko Fujimori's preventive detention

16:26 | Lima, Apr. 30.

The Judicial Branch on Thursday revoked the 15-month preventive detention order imposed on January 28 on former presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori. She is investigated over money laundering offenses and other crimes, for having allegedly received contributions from Brazilian company Odebrecht in 2011 and 2016.

Instead, it ordered that she comply with an appearance with restrictions measure within the framework of the investigations over the Odebrecht case.

The decision was made by the National Permanent Criminal Appeals Chamber Specialized in Organized Crime, which ordered the immediate release of Keiko Fujimori.


Thus, the court ordered Keiko Fujimori not to be absent from her city of residence or to change her home address without prior written authorization from the Fourth National Permanent Preparatory Investigation Court Specialized in Organized Crime that has jurisdiction over this case.

In addition, the daughter of Alberto Fujimori will have to undergo the biometric control every 30 days, report her activities to the aforementioned court, appear before the judicial and prosecutorial authorities that may require so, and is banned from communicating with the co-defendants or witnesses in the case.

An economic bond worth S/70,000 (about US$20,753) was also imposed on her. The amount shall be paid within a period of five business days.

According to the appeal chamber, the preventive detention is not justified in the case of Keiko Fujimori. It added that this was not the most appropriate measure to better guarantee the development of investigations of the crimes attributed by the Public Ministry to her.

It also considered that in the current coronavirus outbreak situation, the recommendation of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights —which requests measures to counter overcrowding in prisons— should be taken into account, including the reassessment of preventive detention cases.


She was expected to remain imprisoned thru April 27, 2021.

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Published: 4/30/2020