A criminal court in Peru has rejected the request of the prosecutor José Domingo Pérez to revoke the provisional release of Keiko Fujimori, committed on June 6 against the leftist leader Pedro Castillo in a presidential ballot that has not yet expressed a winner. The daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori, who is involved in a money laundering trial and was under house arrest, had been released on parole last year, subject to precise and strict conditions, and this allowed her to participate in the electoral campaign. .
Among these conditions was the prohibition to meet witnesses in the trial that concerns her. In his petition, prosecutor Pérez claimed that the right-wing leader had met at least two of these witnesses.
Judge Víctor Zuñiga, head of the Criminal Court number 4 of the trials in the preliminary phase, however, rejected the request, arguing that there was no formal “exhortation”, as required by law, to Fujimori not to violate the conditions imposed, before presenting the request for preventive detention.
Had Zuñiga granted the request, Fujimori would have had to go back to prison for eleven months and 22 days. The prosecution has confirmed that it will appeal the sentence.