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Thursday 1 November 2018

In this photo provided by Peru’s Supreme Court communications
office, former Peruvian first daughter Keiko Fujimori stands in
court, in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018.
Associated Press
Former Peruvian first

daughter detained

in corruption probe In this May 4, 2006 file photo, then presidential candidate Teodoro Petkoff speaks during an
interview in his campaign office in Caracas, Venezuela.
Associated Press
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Former sure that applies,” he con- Venezuelan journalist Teodoro
Peruvian first daughter cluded.
back to jail Wednesday jailed for 36 months, a rul- Petkoff, ex-guerrilla leader, dies
Keiko Fujimori was ordered Concepcion ordered her

in a case that has cap- ing her lawyer immediately
tured attention in the South vowed to appeal. CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) ous South American petro had grown disillusioned
American nation reeling The attorney, Giulliana — Teodoro Petkoff, a giant state. with the Soviet model,
from a series of corruption Loza, argued that the chief of Venezuela’s politics who Born to a Bulgarian father which he saw as growing
scandals reaching into the prosecutor’s case relies led a band of communist and Polish mother of Jewish authoritarian.
highest echelons of power. overwhelmingly on a wit- guerrillas in his youth before origin who immigrated to Together with other former
Judge Richard Concep- ness whose account can- winning the praise of Wall Venezuela, Petkoff’s politi- rebels, Petkoff formed the
cion ruled the 43-year-old not be corroborated and Street in a top government cal rise began as a student left-leading Movement To-
opposition leader should accused Concepcion of post and then launching a leader. He then joined the ward Socialism and was
be detained as a preven- utilizing outside information newspaper that fearlessly Communist Party and elected to the Senate.
tative measure as prosecu- not presented by authori- railed against socialist Presi- took up arms in the 1950s He ran for the presidency
tors investigate allegations ties. dent Hugo Chavez, died against dictator Marcos twice in the 1980s, and
that she led a criminal net- “In this case we’ve never Wednesday. Perez Jimenez. was handily defeated both
work within her party that had an impartial judge,” Xabier Coscojuela, editor Petkoff spent three years in times.
received about $1 million she said. of the newspaper Tal Cual, prison and escaped twice, He joined the government
in illegal payments from After the judge’s ruling, Fuji- said the paper’s founder once by slipping through in the late 1990s when Cal-
Brazilian construction giant mori, who is still considered died after a long illness. a tunnel onto the streets dera in his second term
Odebrecht. one of the most powerful Petkoff was 86. of Caracas, where large tapped the former rebel as
Fujimori has denied taking people in Peru, was sur- Petkoff was celebrated as crowds of costumed Carni- planning minister during an
any money from the com- rounded by a half dozen a critical thinker who main- val-goers provided ample economic crisis. Petkoff’s
pany during her 2011 presi- uniformed officers. tained his political indepen- cover. performance won praise
dential run and has called Dressed in jeans in a long- dence within an opposition In the second escape, he on Wall Street for privatiz-
the investigation a political sleeved black shirt, she movement weakened by vomited blood that he had ing state-run companies
witchhunt. showed no emotion as she cronyism and infighting. swallowed to feign illness and cutting subsidies while
In a hearing that lasted exited the room. He promoted conservative and gained access to a gradually reducing the
over eight hours, Concep- Many Peruvians thought economic policies, which prison hospital, where he state’s role in the economy.
cion said he believed there the daughter of former Latin American leftists con- rappelled down by rope His wit was put on display
was considerable proof to strongman Alberto Fuji- sidered a betrayal. from a seventh-story win- launching Tal Cual in 2000
strongly suspect that Fuji- mori would never see time “Teodoro Petkoff was a dow. during the rise of Hugo
mori not only knew about behind bars in a country mentor to at least three Petkoff continued with the Chavez’s socialist move-
the payments but had an where corruption has long generations of Venezue- armed struggle against a ment, which maintains
active role in hiding the ori- often gone unpunished. lans. I count myself among U.S.-backed government power today. The newspa-
gin of the funds. But some of the nation’s them,” playwright, essayist that replaced Perez Ji- per’s inaugural front page
As Fujimori looked on, her most prominent politi- and former Tal Cual col- menez in 1958. The rebels boldly called out to the
arms crossed and her lips cians, including four ex- umnist Ibsen Martinez told robbed banks, kidnapped charismatic president with
pursed into a frown for presidents, are now under The Associated Press. “He businessmen and fought at the headline: “Hola, Hugo.”
much of the afternoon, the investigation or charged in instilled in us the idea that times with soldiers. Tal Cual’s edgy stories and
judge recounted informa- connection with corruption democracy and tolerance He turned to journalism cutting opinion pieces
tion presented by prosecu- probes, and thousands of ... are the essence of social in the mid-1960s, writing over the years have drawn
tors describing her as the angry citizens have taken justice.” for the Communist Party’s blowback from the govern-
leader of a powerful or- to the streets to protest of- Petkoff’s life story reads newspaper in Caracas. ment, including a defama-
ganization who plotted so ficial graft. more like a Hollywood mov- But the struggle faded in tion lawsuit filed by socialist
that others could commit A referendum on tough- ie script, marked by daring the 1970s as then-President party boss Diosdado Ca-
crimes on her behalf. ening anti-corruption prison escapes, bank heists Rafael Caldera offered bello, then president of the
“Undoubtedly, preventa- laws is scheduled for early and failed presidential amnesty to the last remain- National Assembly. It was
tive prison is the only mea- December.q campaigns in the tumultu- ing rebels. By then, Petkoff later dropped.q