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Keiko Fujimori returns to jail. This has been decided this afternoon in Lima (midnight in Spain) the magistrate Víctor Zúñiga , of the National Criminal Chamber, who has ruled preventive detention for the next 15 months against the Fujimori leader. The judge says that there is a "serious suspicion of money laundering" , allegedly carried out by the National Force (FN) leader, who even had direct knowledge of the money transfers made by the Brazilian giant Odebrecht.

"He ordered acts that occurred in the party, including the money that came from Odebrecht," said the judge, who presented elements of conviction to ensure the creation of a "criminal organization" that simulated these economic contributions to the electoral campaigns of Fujimori. Zúñiga said Fujimori can still impede the investigation prior to the launch of the oral trial, which he estimates will occur within eight months.

José Domingo Pérez , anti-corruption prosecutor of the Lava Jato case, had previously requested 18 months of pretrial detention against Fujjimori, who already served 13 months before being released in November following a controversial decision by the Constitutional Court.

Another hard blow against Fujimori, who hours earlier said in his social networks that he maintained "much faith that justice will prevail . " Alberto Fujimori's daughter, who caressed the presidency in the 2016 elections, made an appearance in court when the judge had already been reading the sentence for several hours and only a few minutes before the outcome, expected with expectation in the Andean country. His face immediately reflected the last blow hit after 48 tragic hours.

In the parliamentary elections on Sunday, his FN suffered the merciless punishment of voters, going from being the hegemonic party with 76 of 130 seats to becoming the fifth force , with only 13 deputies and no power to continue impeding the work of the government .

The new political map of Peru confirms the boredom of voters in the face of corruption and obstructionism in Parliament, now distributing their seats among nine parties. The parallel winner of the elections is President Martín Vizcarra , who in this way can agree and agree with the parties closest to the center, once the Fujimorist yoke has been eliminated. The presidential elections, together with the parliamentarians, are scheduled for April 2021.

The other members of the Fujimori family are not doing much better. Patriarch Alberto, who presided over Peru with an iron hand for a decade, remains in prison, while the Prosecutor's Office demands 12 years in prison for little brother Kenji, the protagonist of a split within FN.

The anti-corruption crusade of prosecutors and judges has not only thwarted the Fujimori, it has also been deployed with special encouragement against former presidents. So Pedro Pablo Kuczynski suffers house arrest after going to jail. Ollanta Humala is the subject of further investigations after nine months in prison and Alejandro Toledo waits in a US jail for a trial to be extradited to his country.

The social democrat Alan García , twice president, committed suicide last year before being arrested. His party, the historic APRA, was struck at the polls, disappearing from the parliamentary map.

Another consequence of the punishment expressed at the polls, which President Vizcarra received as a relief: "We will establish a relationship with the new political forces, working meetings to reconcile agendas. And to see the culmination of political reform and justice system reform. "

The same justice system that today keeps Alberto and Keiko Fujimori in jail and with very vigilant eyes directed towards the other political patriarchs of the country.

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