LIMA (AFP) — Peru's top prosecutor Monday asked the Supreme Court for a 30 year prison sentence for former president Alberto Fujimori, three weeks before the start of his trial on kidnapping and murder charges stemming from his 1990-2000 rule.
On filing the charges at the Supreme Court's special criminal court, Jose Pelaez also asked that Fujimori pay 33 million dollars in damages for the death of 25 people during paramilitary raids in 1991 and 1992 in a Lima neighborhood and its university.
He demanded two further payments of 99,300 dollars each for Fujimori's role in the kidnappings of a reporter and a university professor by the same death squad.
Extradited from Chile in September, Fujimori on November 26 will face trial on Pelaez's charges. He also has three other trials pending on charges of abuse of power, corruption and embezzlement, also allegedly committed under his iron-fisted rule.
If convicted of all charges in his four trials, Fujimori could be sentenced to up to 35 years in jail.
Fujimori, 69, was extradited last month from Chile, where he was detained in 2005 as he tried to make his way back to Peru in the hopes of making a political comeback.
The Chilean Supreme Court approved his extradition on the basis of seven of the 13 charges initially formulated by the Peruvian government.
Fujimori resigned his presidential post by fax from a Tokyo hotel in 2000, after a 10-year presidency that ended with a corruption scandal.
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