Alberto Fujimori, the former president of Peru who offered his resignation by fax after fleeing the country in 2000 in the wake of a corruption scandal, faces judgment in the longest, costliest case in the Andean nation’s history. 

The man Peruvians knew as “El Chino”, in spite of his Japanese ancestry, is charged in connection with 25 murders and two kidnappings. Mr Fujimori, 70, has vigorously defended his decade-long administration, denying that he orchestrated a “dirty war” or had direct links to the massacres or kidnappings.