Pardon of Alberto Fujimori a return to prison would kill him. Days later, on 11 October 2018, the Congress of Peruwhose members are mainly fujimoristapproved a bill allowing older adults to be released from prison and be placed on electronic monitoring, a move that was seen as benefiting Fujimori. Pardon of Alberto Fujimori On 24 December 2017, the President of Peru, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, pardoned jailed ex president Alberto Fujimori. Because the pardon was granted on Christmas Eve, it became known as the ""indulto de Navidad"" ("Christmas pardon"). In 2009, Fujimori was convicted of human rights violations and sentenced to 25 years in prison
Alberto Fujimori the money to Montesinos but claimed that he had later paid back the money to the state. On 20 July, the court found him guilty of embezzlement and sentenced him to a further seven and a half years in prison. A fourth trial took place in September 2009 in Lima. Fujimori was accused of using Montesinos to bribe and tap the phones of journalists, businessmen and opposition politicians – evidence of which led to the collapse of his government in 2000. Fujimori admitted the charges but claimed that the charges were made to damage his daughter's presidential election campaign. The