Former congressman Kenji Fujimori rejected the Public Prosecutor's charges and reserved his right to testify until the end of his trial. | Photo: La República

Lima, January 30 (RHC)-- The Peruvian Public Prosecutor's Office has requested a 12-year prison sentence and the disqualification of former congressman Kenji Fujimori from public office for more than 15 years for the alleged crimes of bribery and aggravated influence peddling.

Peruvian Public Prosecutor Alcides Mario Chinchay Castillo argued during his plea that the son of former president Alberto Fujimori, Bienvenido Ramírez and Guillermo Bocángel tried to persuade the deceased pro-Fujimori legislator Moisés Mamani not to support the vacancy of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK) in exchange for public works.

According to the prosecutor's thesis, the two congressmen led by Kenji Fujimori offered Mamani to look for friendly mayors in the region of Puno to offer them public works and collect a percentage of the financing of such works in exchange for voting against PPK's presidential vacancy.

Prosecutor Chinchay and ex-president PPK met with the former legislator in his house to ask him not to support the vacancy promoted by his opponents in Congress, led by Keiko Fujimori.

For his part, ex-congressman Kenji Fujimori rejected the Public Prosecutor's charges and reserved his right to testify until the end of his trial for bribery and influence peddling.