Peru: Keiko Fujimori Facing Money Laundering Investigation

LIMA, Peru - Keiko Fujimori, former congresswoman and 2016 presidential candidate of her right-wing Popular Force (FP) she still leads, is the subject of a preliminary investigation opened by the Attorney General into claims that she and party colleagues laundered some $15 million.

Last year, Fujimori lost the presidential election in the second round run-off vote against Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, the candidate of the center-right Peruvians for Change (PPK), by a razor-thin margin.

After nearly five days of scrutinization, the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) announced that Kuczynski had won 50.12 percent of the vote to Fujimori's 49.88 percent. In bulk numbers, 8,589,529 votes were placed for Kuczynski while 8,547,845 were for Fujimori, meaning that the margin of victory was just an incredible 0.24 percent with a low voter turnout of 54 percent.