Party Chief Takes Rap for Keiko Fujimori in DEA Investigation
Party Chief Takes Rap for Keiko Fujimori in DEA Investigation
Published 19 May 2016
Ramirez owns several real estate and construction businesses and has been part of a money-laundering investigation by Peruvian prosecutors since 2014.
Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori announced on Wednesday that Joaquin Ramirez had resigned from her Fuerza Popular Party in a bid to calm an uproar following media reports that linked the two to money laundering.
Fujimori said Ramirez, the party's secretary general, offered to step down, even though both have denied any wrongdoing.
In a joint Sunday broadcast, Univision's investigative unit and Peruvian television show Cuarto Poder reported that Ramirez was the subject of a money laundering investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
The report featured a man identified as a pilot and DEA informant who said he recorded Ramirez stating that he laundered $15 million for Fujimori's previous political campaign.
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