Former dictator Alberto Fujimori would need a 300-year life pension to pay civil reparations owed to the State. Against the Law, the Congress The former dictator declared this request, which was promoted and approved during his government, to be admissible. This number of years is calculated by dividing his debt of S/57 million with the State by what he would receive each month.
La República spoke with criminal lawyers Benji Espinoza, Andy Carrión and Joel Córdova, who told us that the Attorney General’s Office and family members of victims of the dictatorship, through the Judiciary, can request the money from the former president’s life pension.
Alberto Fujimori: The Attorney General’s Office is in charge of requesting an embargo against the former president
According to lawyer Benji Espinoza, former dictator Alberto Fujimori He would not receive a single sol from his life pension. The expert indicated that it is “perfectly possible” that the Judiciary will seize his accounts after the Attorney General’s Office requests it.
“The embargo is valid. The pardon only erases the execution of the sentence, nothing more, the pardon does not exempt, exonerate, or cancel the obligation to pay civil reparations. Of course, the Attorney General’s Office is the one entitled to request the embargo, it has to ask the judge and he decides whether to accept it or not, but it is perfectly possible,” he told La República.
Along the same lines, he indicates that what is happening now is a kind of monarchical application of the law, where the king could give a rule that applied to everyone except himself. Espinoza mentions this in relation to the fact that during his decade this lifelong pension project was promoted along with all the parameters that currently prevent it. “The halo of impunity that exists, and how Congress is being managed, they believe they have the power to do everything,” he indicated.
Alberto Fujimori is a person with a conviction. Photo: compositionLR/diffusion
Alberto Fujimori: Former president’s request for a lifetime pension is purely out of political interest
For Andy Carrión, this fact is totally irregular. due to the conviction of Alberto Fujimoriwhich was brought following a constitutional charge made in the early 2000s. The criminal lawyer describes as absolutely false the claims that the pardon would have erased the conviction.
Along the same lines, he also agrees with Benji Espinoza on the issue of the embargo: “The Attorney General’s Office or the relatives could ask the Judiciary to execute the civil reparation payments and to seize Fujimori’s accounts and money,” he said.
However, Carrión says that Fujimori already knows that this money will be seized and that is why he has not claimed his pension as a professor at the La Molina Agrarian University. (UNALM) because he already anticipated that if these amounts were deposited, they would be subject to seizure by the Attorney General’s Office, the Judiciary and the aggrieved parties, so this request is purely for political interest, since he is a potential candidate despite the fact that it is prohibited.
“In the end, all Peruvians would be paying the civil reparation in comfortable installments because the money they are going to pay comes from the state coffers,” he concludes.
Congress violated Law No. 26519 by approving Alberto Fujimori’s lifetime pension
For his part, Joel Córdova, who was a lawyer for the State Attorney General’s Office, He indicated that Congress has violated Law No. 26519 by approving this request for a life pension, given that he has been constitutionally accused and the pardon granted by Pedro Pablo Kuzcynzki It does not erase any legal situation, a point on which he agrees with Benji Espinoza and Andy Carrión.
“It is a flagrant violation of Law No. 26519, which in its Article 2, expressly prohibits the granting of a life pension to those former presidents who have been constitutionally accused and are not later acquitted by the Judiciary, as is the case of the pardoned Alberto Fujimori, who was not only constitutionally accused, but was also sentenced, and none of these legal situations have been erased by the humanitarian pardon granted to him by Pedro Pablo Kuzcynzki,” he commented.
Regarding the issue of the life pension, Córdova points out that a rather sad panorama is expected due to the amount of the debt, which is approximately S/57 million. The monthly amount that could be obtained would not allow a real payment of the civil compensation in either the short or medium term.
