Japan has sent a report to Peru on the questioning of deposed Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori as a witness in the corruption case of his former intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos, according to diplomatic sources.
The record of Fujimori's questioning earlier this year by a Japanese judge was included in the Foreign Ministry's partial response to the Peruvian Embassy in Tokyo. The Peruvian government is holding an inquiry into Montesinos' case, the sources said.
Fujimori was questioned in Japan in response to a request in February by Peru's Supreme Court to the Japanese Supreme Court to carry out the task on its behalf, they said.
Both the Foreign Ministry and the Peruvian Embassy have refused to comment on the reported submission.
It was the first time Fujimori has cooperated in investigations by Peruvian authorities since he came to Japan late last year. Fujimori himself is wanted by Peruvian authorities for his alleged involvement in mass killings carried out by death squads in Lima in the early 1990s.
The former president has strongly denied all allegations against him.
Fujimori resigned as Peru's president Nov. 20 while in Japan. But Peru's congress rejected his resignation and dismissed him the following day, saying he was unfit to govern.
In December, the Japanese government confirmed that Fujimori, the son of migrants to Peru who originally came from Kumamoto Prefecture, holds Japanese citizenship.
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