Fujimori Won’t Suspend Party Official on Laundering Allegations
- Report says U.S. drug agency is investigating Fujimori ally
- Fujimori seeking to win presidential runoff on June 5
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Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori rejected allegations her party’s general secretary is involved in money laundering and accused her political adversaries of trying to sabotage her campaign less than three weeks before the presidential runoff.
Lima-based America Television and New York-based Univision reported May 15 that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is investigating congressman Joaquin Ramirez for suspected money laundering. The reports cited a DEA informant who said he taped a 2013 conversation in which Ramirez said Fujimori gave him $15 million to be laundered.