Alberto Fujimori

**Alberto Kenya Fujimori Inomoto** (July 26, 1938 – September 11, 2024) was the President of Peru from 1990 to 2000.   A controversial figure in Peruvian politics, his government is credited with defeating the Shining Path insurgency and restoring Peru's macroeconomic stability.

In 2016, Fujimori's head of intelligence, Vladimiro Montesinos, was convicted for the force disappearances of a professor and two students in 1993.  Many people accused Fujimori of being complicit due to his having direct control of the military, led by Montesinos.

After that, Fujimori went to Japan, as his Japanese ancestry had allowed him citizenship there. Japan protected him from Peruvian law since they do not find any valid accusation. Fujimori resigned the Presidency of Peru. Valentín Paniagua was elected president by the Congress soon after Fujimori resigned.

His daughter, Keiko Fujimori is also a politician and ran for president three times, the most recent being is 2021.

## Prison and release

In 2005 Fujimori was detained in Chile. After his extradition in 2007 the Peruvian government put him on trial and convicted him. He was sentenced to several years in prison. On 24 December 2017, President Kuczynski pardoned him on health grounds but in 2019 he was put back in prison. He was released in December 2023 because of bad health.

## Death

Fujimori died of problems caused by tongue cancer on September 11, 2024 in Lima at the age of 86.

## Other websites

- Biography and tenure by CIDOB Foundation
- The Fall of Fujimori on _POV_ at _PBS_, 2006
- State of Fear a documentary of Peru's war on terror based on the findings of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission

## Infobox (criminal)

- **child**: yes
- **charge**: Human rights abuses, murder, kidnapping, embezzlement, abuse of power, bribery and corruption
- **conviction penalty**: 25 years in prison (Human rights abuses, murder and kidnapping charges)
Six years in prison (Abuse of power charges)
Seven-and-a-half years in prison (Embezzlement charges)
Six years in prison (Corruption and bribery charges)
- **conviction status**: Convicted


## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific prefix**: _The Most Excellent, Excelentísimo Señor_
- **name**: Alberto Fujimori
- **image**: Visit of Alberto Fujimori, President of Peru, to the CEC (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Fujimori in 1991
- **order**: 54th
- **office**: President of Peru
- **term start**: 28 July 1990
- **term end**: 22 November 2000
- **predecessor**: Alan García
- **successor**: Valentín Paniagua
- **office2**: President of the Emergency and National Reconstruction Government
- **term start2**: 5 April 1992
- **term end2**: 9 January 1993
- **predecessor2**: _Post established_
- **successor2**: _Post abolished_
- **birth name**: Alberto Kenya Fujimori Inomoto
- **birth place**: Lima, Peru
- **death place**: Lima, Peru
- **party**: Cambio 90, Change 90 (1990–1998)
Sí Cumple, Vamos Vecino (1998–2005)
Sí Cumple (2005–2010)
People's New Party (2007–2013)
 Popular Force (2024)
- **otherparty**: New Majority (Peru), New Majority (1992–1998, non-affiliated member)
Peru 2000 (1999–2001)
Alliance for the Future (Peru), Alliance for the Future (2005–2010)
Cambio 21 (political party), Change 21 (2018–2019)
- **children**: 4, including Keiko Fujimori, Keiko and Kenji Fujimori, Kenji
- **relatives**: Santiago Fujimori (brother)
- **education**: National Agrarian University (Bachelor of Science, BS)
University of Strasbourg
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (Master of Science, MS)
- **signature**: Firma de Alberto Fujimori.svg
- **module**: **Criminal information**
- **native name lang**: ja