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Summary
Ex-Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori has been sentenced to six years in jail for corruption by a court in Lima. Fujimori, who is already serving prison sentences for crimes including ordering killings by security forces, was in court for the fourth and final trial. The charges relate to a scandal that became the cause of his government's downfall in 2000. During the trial, Fujimori, confessed that he had illegally tapped the phones of journalists, businessmen and opposition politicians. Fujimori, who was Peru's president from 1990 to 2000, returned from exile in late 2007 to face a number of charges. In April this year, he was sentenced to 25 years in jail for ordering the security forces to carry out killings and kidnappings.In July he was sentenced to a further seven-and-a-half years for embezzlement after being convicted by Peru's Supreme Court of giving $15m (9.3m) in state funds to his spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos. Montesinos is currently in jail, convicted on dozens of charges including drug-trafficking and selling guns to Colombian rebels.
