In July, Keiko Fujimori announced that her father had returned to politics and intended to run for president again in the 2026 election.
Fujimori, who ruled from 1990 to 2000, was a controversial figure in the country, with some calling him a dictator..
His supporters credited his neoliberal economic policies with controlling rampant inflation and his hardline government with defeating the Maoist paramilitary organization Sendero Luminoso, which was operating at the time.
However, in the fight against the Shining Path, Fujimori’s services committed crimes, including massacres of civilians by so-called death squads.
His government has also waged an anti-poverty campaign in which human rights activists say thousands of indigenous women have been forcibly sterilized.
In 2009, the court sentenced Fujimori to 25 years in prison.recognizing its responsibility for the kidnappings of opposition members and massacres of civilians in the Barrios Altos neighborhood and at the University of La Cantuta in Lima. A total of 25 people died in them.
He was the first former president in the world to be tried and convicted for human rights violations in his own country. He pleaded not guilty and claimed the case against him was politically motivated.
Between 2007 and 2016, Fujimori also had a series of other convictions, including for corruption and misappropriation of public funds.
The pardon granted to Fujimori in December 2017 by then-President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski sparked a wave of mass protests in Peru and marked the beginning of a years-long legal battle. Finally, in December 2023, the Constitutional Court approved the act of clemency and ordered Fujimori’s release from prison.
According to the Peruvian newspaper “La Republica” Fujimori died, leaving unpaid debts totaling 57 million soles (PLN 58 million). He failed to pay, among others: financial sanctions imposed by the courts in several cases, the newspaper reported, citing the anti-corruption department of the Ministry of Justice.
