Sentence for Kenji Fujimori, son of the former Peruvian president

Former Peruvian congressman Kenji Fujimori, son of former president Alberto Fujimori and brother of political leader Keiko, was sentenced to four years and six months in prison for the crime of influence peddling, in a plot to buy parliamentarian votes in 2018 to avoid the dismissal of the then president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.

Kenji’s prison sentence is suspended until the second court decides, so he will not go to jail immediately.

The Special Criminal Chamber of the Peruvian Supreme Court considered that Kenji sought to buy congressional votes to prevent Parliament, then controlled by the opposition led by his sister Keiko, from removing Kuczynski from the presidency of the Republic, in March 2018, for his alleged business with the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.

Former congressmen Guillermo Bocángel, Bienvenido Ramírez and a parliamentary adviser, Alexei Toledo, close to Kenji, were also sentenced to prison.

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