Peru's Humala Being Held in Same Prison as Fujimori

Peru's former president, Ollanta Humala, is being held currently in the prison of the Special Operations Directorate of the National Police (PNP) in Lima, the same prison where former president Alberto Fujimori is also incarcerated.

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Humala's wife, Nadine Heredia, is being held in the women's penitentiary in the Chorrillos district of Lima.

Humala, who led Peru from 2011 to 2016, is in the initial days of serving a pre-trial detention for alleged corruption and money laundering. Both him and his wife are being investigated for allegedly receiving US$3 million in bribes from the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, which is currently embroiled in an international corruption scandal.

The couple spent Thursday night in the Palace of Justice headquarters in Lima, before being drive to a police station in the Rimac district, and then split apart to be transferred to their respective prisons by helicopter.

Humala is being detained in the same facility as Alberto Fujimori, who ruled from 1990 to 2000. Fujimori is serving a 25-year term for corruption and severe human rights violations committed as his administration brutally cracked down on leftist militant groups.

Humala became a major figure when he commanded a group of soldiers to rebel against Fujimori's government as it collapsed amid a graft scandal in 2000. He later rallied supporters to beat Fujimori's daughter, Keiko, in the 2011 presidential election.

Humala and Fujimori, while in the same facility, will not be sharing common spaces.