Former Peruvian congressman Kenji Fujimori, son of former president Alberto Fujimori and brother of political leader Keiko, was sentenced on Tuesday to four and a half years in prison for the crime of influence peddling, for a plot to buy parliamentary votes in 2018 to prevent the dismissal of the then president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.
The Special Criminal Chamber of the Peruvian Supreme Court indicated in its reading of the sentence summary that Kenji’s prison sentence is suspended until the second judicial instance decides, so he will not go to jail immediately.
The court considered that Kenji sought to buy votes from congressmen 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 RamÃrez -for whom the prison sentence is also suspended until the second instance- and a parliamentary adviser, Alexei Toledo, who were close to Kenji, were also sentenced to prison.