Chile's Supreme Court ruled Friday that former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori must be extradited to face charges of human rights violations and corruption in Peru, the Associated Press reported.
Fujimori has been in Chile since November 2005 following a five-year exile in Japan, where he fled after a corruption scandal collapsed his administration, according to the AP.
Peru's Minister of Justice Maria Zavala told the Peruvian newspaper La Republica that Fujimori would be held in an undisclosed location where he would receive due process rights.
"We hope to have Fujimori in Peru soon," Zavala told La Republica.
The human rights charges stem from the 1993 death-squad killing of nine students and a professor at La Cantuta University and the 1991 killings of 15 people in Barrio Altos, a working class neighborhood, said Chilean Justice Albert Chaigneau, according to the AP.
The corruption charges stem from alleged payoffs to members of Congress for government projects and the illegal tapping of telephone calls, Chaigneau said.
-PATRICIO CHILE
