Peru's Keiko Fujimori: 'Serious Crimes' During Father's Gov't

Keiko Fujimori, campaigning in the lead up to the upcoming presidential elections, confessed Sunday that corruption did infiltrate her father's government, adding she would be “implacable” in the fight against corruption.

“I am aware that corruption attacked Alberto Fujimori's regime, the same way it attacked others as well,” said the leader of the conservative Popular Party in an interview with El Comercio.

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The corruption was “very painful for the country,” she admitted, stressing she would fight both “small and big corruption” if she was elected next year. 

She currently leads the polls for the coming presidential elections, due in 2016, despite various scandals such as her father’s involvement in her campaign from his prison cell.

However, on the crimes committed during her father's government, she said that although there were different views on the extent that he was personally responsible, such as his choice to keep Vladimiro Montesinos until the end, she knew that “serious crimes of corruption” had been committed.