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Fujimori Accounts Hold Millions of Dollars -- Peru
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori (news - web sites)'s bank accounts contain millions of dollars, much more than he could earn and potential proof that he stole large sums of state money during his 10-year rule, a Supreme Court judge said on Saturday. Judge Jose Luis Lecaros said foreign and Peruvian bank accounts declared by Fujimori, who denies any wrongdoing, contain "hundreds of millions of soles," far more than the former president could have earned during his time in government or via the property he owns. "There is a great imbalance" between his earning power and his income, Lecaros told CPN radio. He declined to say how much had been traced during the yearlong investigation, or whether Fujimori had access to any of the accounts.
I dunno, what's the average earning power of a deposed dictator these days?
Peru is preparing a new request to extradite Fujimori from Japan, giving more details to support its accusations and including the corruption charges, Lecaros said. Peru wants to try Fujimori for authorizing the killing of 25 people by an army death squad in the early 1990s. Fujimori fled to Japan when a massive corruption scandal felled his hard-line presidency in 2000. He has Japanese citizenship and Japan as a rule does not extradite its nationals. Prosecutors said last year they had traced a $150,000 check that showed Fujimori had diverted donations by two Japanese aid agencies to his bank account in an affiliate of the Bank of Tokyo in Peru, Norbank, in 1996.
Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-10-03
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=44926