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Fri 10 Oct 2009Former Peru president gets six years for bribery
PERU’S DISGRACED former president, Alberto Fujimori, has been sentenced to six years in jail by the country’s supreme court following his conviction on bribery and wiretapping charges.
Fujimori (71) already faces spending the rest of his life in jail after being handed a 25-year sentence earlier this year for gross human-rights abuses during his decade in power from 1990 to 2000.
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