(8 Dec 2017) Prosecutors raided two offices of Peru’s main opposition party on Thursday as part of an investigation of alleged money laundering by the campaign of losing presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori.
At the same time as authorities raided the Popular Force offices in the north and center of Peru’s capital, Fujimori voluntarily entered the Attorney General’s Office to meet with officials.
Fujimori, who is the daughter of imprisoned former strongman Alberto Fujimori, later told a news conference the only thing “this abusive attitude, the only thing that it will accomplish, is to strengthen, to unite us.”
“They will not silence use. They will not break us. We will remain firm in fighting the corrupt ones,” said Fujimori, who lost Peru’s 2016 election to current President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.
She said prosecutors had received Popular Force’s accounting books months ago and the election body received them two weeks ago.
Peruvian prosecutors opened a money laundering investigation into Fujimori’s 2011 and 2016 electoral campaigns after seeing a note written by Marcelo Odebrecht, head of a Brazilian construction mega-company at the center of a continent-wide corruption scandal.
The note found in Odebrecht’s cellphone said “increase Keiko to 500 and pay a visit.”
Kuczynski said the raids took him by surprise and suggested they did not respect due process.
Peru’s legislature is dominated by Fujimori’s supporters.
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