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Viewing cable 06LIMA44, PERU REQUESTS EX-PRESIDENT FUJIMORI'S EXTRADITION

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06LIMA44 2006-01-05 20:18 2011-03-10 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Lima
Appears in these articles:
http://elcomercio.pe/impresa/edicion/2011-03-10/ectd100311a02/02
 
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FM AMEMBASSY LIMA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 7910
INFO RUEHBO/AMEMBASSY BOGOTA 2801
RUEHBR/AMEMBASSY BRASILIA 6401
RUEHCV/AMEMBASSY CARACAS 8842
RUEHLP/AMEMBASSY LA PAZ JAN QUITO 9874
RUEHSG/AMEMBASSY SANTIAGO 0023
RHMFIUU/CDR USSOUTHCOM MIAMI FL
 
UNCLAS LIMA 000044 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PHUM PREL PE CI
SUBJECT: PERU REQUESTS EX-PRESIDENT FUJIMORI'S EXTRADITION 
FROM CHILE 
 
 
1.  The Peruvian Government formally requested ex-President Alberto Fujimori's extradition from Chile on 1/3.  The diplomatic note containing the request was signed by  Foreign Minister Oscar Maurtua and was personally delivered to Chilean Foreign Minister Ignacio Walker by Peru's Ambassador in Santiago Jose Antonio Meier. 

2.  The extradition request reportedly covers 14 separate criminal charges against Fujimori relating to the following: 

- The murder of 15 people in Barrios Altos and the disappearance and killing of 9 students and one professor at the University La Cantuta. 

- Payment of USD 15 million to Fujimori's National Security Advisor VladimiroMontesinos for undefined ""services."" 	

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switched political partes in support of Fujimori. 

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pockets of Fujimori family members

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- Fujimori's unauthorized search of VladimiroMontesinos' residence (following the latter's flight), without having a representative of the Prosecutor's Office present. 

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Peru. 

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purchase of machinery from China. 

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the torture allegedly inflicted on Leonor La Rosa and Susana Higuchi (Fujimori's former wife). 	

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Service (SIN) to the Office of Presidential Security (Casa Militar). 

- Payments to Hector Faisal and the web page ""APROVED"" to defame opponents of the Fujimori regime. 

- Payments to the tax authority (SUNAT) to cover a USD 2 million debt owed by publisher Daniel Borobio. 

3.  The Peruvian Government also requested that the Government of Chile maintain Fujimori in detention while the Chilean Supreme Court considers the extradition request, citing the severity of several of the crimes imputed to him and arguing that he remains a flight risk. 

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