Alberto Fujimori To Undergo 7.5 Years Imprisonment For Corruption  Former Peruvian President, Alberto Fujimori |
Former Peruvian President, Alberto Fujimori, has been sentenced to 7.5 years of imprisonment for financial fraud and corruption.
The Special Penal Council of Peru's Supreme Court on Monday convicted Fujimori of illegally paying his intelligence chief $15 million from the state funds.
During his defence, the 70-year-old former Peruvian President said that the money was paid to avoid a rebellion plotted by his high consultant, Vladimiro Montesinos. Fujimori said that he would appeal against the verdict.
This is already the third trial on Fujimori since he returned to Peru in 2007. He was previously sentenced to 25-year imprisonment in a 15-month-long marathon trial for violation of human rights, including ordering the massacre of 25 people. He also received another six-year jail term for abuse of power.
Fujimori, who ruled the Latin American country from 1990 to 2000, still faces another trial for authorising bribery, telephone spying, and abusing public funds in the purchase of a news channel.
While announcing the verdict, Supreme Court judge Cesar San Martin said that the trial on Fujimori has no political implications and is based on Peru's Constitution and laws.
