Chile Requests New Charges Against Peru's Ex-President Fujimori

Chile's Supreme Court has asked Peruvian judicial authorities to question former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori on two new charges following his extradition.

According to Peru’s La Republica, the request would investigate the murder of six Peruvians in the Lima province of Barranca in 1992 by the covert military group Colina.

It would also consider prosecuting Fujimori for embezzlement for allegedly authorizing his friend Augusto Miyagusuku to use US$800,000 of public funds to buy agricultural land.

Fujimori, who was extradited from Chile in September 2007, was sentenced in April 2009 to 25 years in prison for two massacres committed by the Colina group and the kidnapping of a businessman and a journalist after a coup d'etat in 1992 .

The former president has also received lesser sentences of between six to eight years for illegally using public resources to buy off tabloid newspapers, paying them to write favorable headlines. Many of those deals included large payments that were recorded on video by Fujimori’s right-hand man, Vladimiro Montesinos.