{"id":28764,"date":"2016-08-17T04:45:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T02:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/28764-peru-ex-presidents-embezzlement-sentence-overturned.html"},"modified":"2016-08-17T04:45:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T02:45:02","slug":"peru-ex-presidents-embezzlement-sentence-overturned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/28764-peru-ex-presidents-embezzlement-sentence-overturned.html","title":{"rendered":"Peru ex-president's embezzlement sentence overturned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n             Peru's supreme court has overturned an embezzlement sentence against former president Alberto Fujimori, although the decision will not alter the 25-year prison term he is serving for crimes against humanity.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            The disgraced former leader was sentenced in January 2015 to eight years in prison for diverting some 122 million soles ($40 million) in state funds to help manipulate the media.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            The sentence had only symbolic effect, however, with prisoners in Peru serving only the longest of their concurrent sentences.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            The court's decision, which was released Tuesday by local media, concluded that Fujimori's embezzlement trial had ended \"without proving his guilt and responsibility, nor his innocence.\"\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            The 78-year-old ex-president has denied the embezzlement charges, claiming there was no evidence that he participated in delivery of the money.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Fujimori has been in jail since 2007 on a 25-year sentence over the killing of 25 people by a government-backed death squad in Peru's war against the Maoist Shining Path rebel group.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            He has been in and out of the hospital in recent months due to a series of health problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peru's supreme court has overturned an embezzlement sentence against former president Alberto Fujimori, although the decision will not alter the 25-year prison term he is serving for crimes against humanity. 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