This Wednesday, September 11th Former dictator Alberto Fujimori passed away at 86 years old, coincidentally on the same day of the death of the former terrorist leader Abimael Guzman. He former Peruvian president (1990 to 2000) left his possible candidacy for the 2026 presidential elections as a simple expectation and a civil reparations of S/57 million unpaid. Faced with this, many have wondered what will happen to the debt after his death.
Fujimori was sentenced for seven cases, three of which were related to corruption and for which he was sentenced to Civil compensation of S/27 million: for the illegal search of Vladimiro Montesinos’ home, the illegal purchase of Cable Canal and the payment of the CTS to his former advisor for 7 million. This amount has been increasing its interest and today totals S/57 million, of which he has never paid a single sol.
What will happen with the civil compensation of S/57 million, after the death of Alberto Fujimori?
According to the criminal lawyer Mario AmorettiDuring the time when Alejandro Toledo was president of Peru, Congress approved a law stating that pardoned persons were not required to pay any civil reparations they owed.
“Many years ago, a law was passed in which the pardoned person, declared innocent by the Constitutional Court (TC), was not obliged to pay compensation,” he declared. interview for La República.
Amoretti refers to the Law No. 27468issued in June 2001, which specifies that persons benefiting from pardons and rights of grace under the provisions of Law No. 26655 are exempt from paying fines or civil compensation.
This last rule, enacted in 1996, created the Commission for Pardon, Right of Grace and Commutation of Sentences for cases of terrorism and treason, after hundreds of innocent Peruvians were deprived of their liberty and convicted without sufficient evidence during the period of internal violence in Peru (1980-2000).
The criminal lawyer also argued that in cases of civil reparation the State can seize real estate. In the case of Fujimori, however, the Attorney General’s Office was unable to detect any properties in his name. On the other hand, Amoretti pointed out that, even if he had to pay his debt despite having been pardoned, this is exonerated after his death.
Civil reparation and life pension approved by Congress
For her part, parliamentarian Sigrid Bazán, from the Juntos por el Perú bloc, indicated that after the Congress of the Republic approves that former dictator Alberto Fujimori receives a lifetime pension, after his pardon, the debt would be paid by the Peruvian state.
“The civil reparations that Alberto Fujimori never paid in his life were going to be assumed by the state itself thanks to the decision of Congress that Mr. Fujimori receive a pension. You will remember this last decision to receive a pension, finally he was going to pay the civil reparations,” said the congresswoman.
When will Alberto Fujimori be laid to rest?
According to the leader of Fuerza Popular, Keiko Fujimori, her father Alberto Fujimori will be laid to rest starting tomorrow, Thursday, September 12, at 11 a.m. at the Museum of the Nation until Saturday, September 14, when he will be buried in the Campo Fe cemetery in Huachipa.
