Crime in Peru Crime in Peru Crime in Peru is investigated by the Peruvian police. In 2012, Peru had a murder rate of 9.6 per 100,000 population. There were a total of 2,865 murders in Peru in 2012. By 2015, this had declined to 7.16 per 100,000, with 2,247 murders recorded. Peru's most prominent political corruption scandal is probably the case of Alberto Fujimori, Peru's ex-President. Fujimori has been convicted of having ordered killings, embezzlement of public funds, abuse of power and corruption during his 10 years of presidency (1990-2000). In 2006, Fujimori fled to Japan with an alleged USD 600 million of
Alberto Fujimori president, so that he could be criminally charged and prosecuted. Congress also voted to support charges against Fujimori for the detention and disappearance of 67 students from the central Andean city of Huancayo and the disappearance of several residents from the northern coastal town of Chimbote during the 1990s. It also approved charges that Fujimori mismanaged millions of dollars from Japanese charities, suggesting that the millions of dollars in his bank account were far too much to have been accumulated legally. In 2004, the Special Prosecutor established to investigate Fujimori released a report alleging that the Fujimori administration had obtained