Tag: Pedro Pablo Kuczynski

• Monday, January 6th 2020 - 09:25 UTC

  Kenji Fujimori faces 12-year prison for attempting to buy votes in Peruvian congress

  

  Peruvian prosecutors are seeking a 12-year prison term for former lawmaker Kenji Fujimori on charges of attempting to buy votes in a plot to keep ex-president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski from being impeached. Prosecutor Bersabeth Revilla accused the son of jailed ex-president Alberto Fujimori of bribery and influence-peddling.

• Wednesday, July 17th 2019 - 10:50 UTC

  US Marshals arrest former Peruvian President Toledo pending extradition

  

  Peru's fugitive President Alejandro Celestino Toledo Manrique has been arrested Tuesday in California following an extradition request filed a year ago by his country's authorities, it was reported by both US and Peruvian sources.

• Thursday, April 18th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Ex Peruvian president Alan Garcia shoots himself in the head

  

  Former Peruvian President Alan García was reported to have died on Wednesday after shooting himself in the head minutes before a warrant for his arrest was to be executed. Alan Gabriel Ludwig García Pérez, 69, was president of Peru from 1985 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2011. He also served in Congress.

• Wednesday, April 17th 2019 - 13:19 UTC

  Former ex-president Garcia shoots himself when police tried to arrest him

  

  Peru’s former president Alan Garcia shot himself early on Wednesday after police arrived at his home in the capital Lima to arrest him in connection with a bribery investigation, a police source said.

• Wednesday, March 13th 2019 - 08:40 UTC

  Peru cabinet reshuffle: new prime minister but Finance and Mines remain

  

  Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra swore in actor and former Culture Minister Salvador del Solar as his new prime minister in a cabinet shuffle that may help shore up his slipping approval ratings.

• Tuesday, October 16th 2018 - 08:32 UTC

  Public opinion support for Peruvian president in his struggle with Congress

  

  Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra’s approval rating shot up 16 points to a high of 61% in October, after he adopted a harder line with the opposition-run Congress, a monthly Ipsos poll showed on Sunday.

• Wednesday, October 10th 2018 - 19:01 UTC

  Leader Keiko Fujimori arrested for money laundering in Peru

  

  A week after the justice annulled the pardon to her father, the former president Alberto Fujimori, after a request of the Peru's Attorney of Wash of Assets, the powerful leader of the Popular Force party, Keiko Fujimori, was arrested in Lima on Wednesday after going to a court to be questioned with her husband. The arrest occurred amid an investigation for alleged irregular handling of funds of the party's campaign for 2011 presidential elections.

• Thursday, October 4th 2018 - 12:14 UTC

  Fujimori's pardon reversed, due back in jail goes to hospital instead

  

  Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's pardon was reversed by a court of law Wednesday, ruling that he must go back to prison. Instead, he was admitted into a hospital on health grounds.

• Friday, June 29th 2018 - 05:11 UTC

  President Vizcarra claims corruption costs Peru US$ 3 billion annually

  

  President Martin Vizcarra said that the Peruvian government will enforce a “zero tolerance” policy against corruption amid a spreading bribery scandal that has involved at least three former presidents.

• Wednesday, March 28th 2018 - 22:01 UTC

  Lima Summit on as planned, says Peru's new president

  

  Martin Vizcarra explained he received supporting phone calls from various regional leaders for the April gathering. Maduro's invitation is a matter for the Foreign Ministry to decide.