Lima: Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori, already sentenced to 25 years behind bars for human right violations, was sentenced Wednesday to six years in jail for corruption.
The ex-President said he would appeal the latest sentence the minute it was read out.
Fujimori, 71, admitted to bribing opposition lawmakers, illegal purchase of a media outlet and wiretapping politicians, journalists and businesspeople at the start of his fourth and final trial earlier this week.
In Peru, however, multiple prison sentences are not combined. Rather the individual convicted serves the longest term, in Fujimori's case the 25-year sentence he received last April.
So he faces the potential of spending the rest of his life behind bars.
The court separately Wednesday ordered the former president -- who was in office from 1990-2000 -- to pay a fine worth eight million US dollars to the state and one million to political leaders and journalists that his regime targeted.
Bureau Report
First Published: Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 23:48