Bolivia captures fugitive former adviser to Peru president

[Judi Lynn]

Bolivia captures fugitive former adviser to Peru president
Source: Reuters - Thu, 28 May 2015 23:42 GMT

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LA PAZ/LIMA, May 28 (Reuters) - Bolivia captured a fugitive former adviser to Peru's president on Thursday when he was spotted eating in a public market four days after escaping house arrest.

Police arrested Martin Belaunde, Humala's campaign adviser in his failed 2006 presidential bid, in northern Bolivia near the border with Brazil, said Bolivian deputy justice minister Rene Martinez.

"He was walking...there was no resistance," Martinez said on local Peruvian broadcaster RPP.

Bolivia had been preparing to extradite Belaunde to Peru to face corruption charges when he vanished from a residence in La Paz where he was guarded by a team of police.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. Fugitive Peruvian Businessman Says He Escaped from Kidnappers

Fugitive Peruvian Businessman Says He Escaped from Kidnappers

LIMA – A prominent Peruvian businessman who was said to have escaped from house arrest in Bolivia pending extradition back to Peru on corruption charges contacted the media to say he was kidnapped from his place of confinement in La Paz, but managed to get away from his captors.

Martin Belaunde Lossio, a former campaign adviser to President Ollanta Humala, spoke Tuesday night in a telephone interview with Peru’s Canal N television.

He said he suffered multiple contusions when he jumped out of the car in which two men transported him after he was taken by force last Sunday from the residence in La Paz where he was under house arrest.

“I was kidnapped. I have not fled because I don’t need to. There were criminal procedures pending in Bolivia,” he said in a reference to the extradition process initiated by Peru.

“That, I won’t tell you,” Belaunde Lossio said when reporter Milagros Leiva asked him where he was.

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