The leader of Fuerza Popular in Perú will ramain in prison for 36 months by order of judge Richard Concepción
by El Comercio
The leader of Fuerza Popular, Keiko Fujimori, must serve preventive detention by decision of Judge Richard Concepción Carhuancho.
The leader of Fuerza Popular, Keiko Fujimori, was detained this morning in the Annex Prison for Women of Chorrillos, after being transferred, under strong security measures, from the jail of the Judicial Power, located in the Center of Lima.
A caravan of the National Police guarded the van of the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE), in which Fujimori Higuchi was traveling, along the Expressway of the Av. Paseo de la República and the Costa Verde. leaving the jail showed a smile for his supporters, who were in the outskirts.
Keiko Fujimori spent his first night of preventive detention on Wednesday, following the order of Judge Richard Concepcion Carhuancho in the framework of the investigation that is followed for allegedly receiving and laundering illegal contributions of the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht. It was visited by the congressmen Úrsula Letona and Karla Schaefer.
The place where the leader of Fuerza Popular will remain is next to the Chorrillos Women’s Prison and it is the same center where the former first lady Nadine Heredia was held for nine months when Concepción Carhuancho also ordered preventive detention against her and the former president. Ollanta Humala
The former presidential candidate must serve preventive detention for 36 months by order of the investigative judge Richard Concepción Carhuancho, who responded to the request made by prosecutor José Domingo Pérez to apply this measure against Keiko Fujimori and ten others investigated.
Although they have not yet finished discussing all the cases of the defendants (six were missing at the time that was ordered in custody against Keiko Fujimori), the magistrate decided to evaluate case by case and had enough elements to determine the case of the leader of Fuerza Popular.
Before this resolution, the defense of Keiko Fujimori presented an appeal that they expect to be heard within a period of about three weeks, after it is determined whether or not the recusations that have been filed against Richard Concepción Carhuancho and the National Chamber of Appeals filed by lawyer Giulliana Loza and prosecutor Rafael Vela Barba respectively.
