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The death was officially reported to Judge Flávio Dino, who was in charge of the extradition case, through an official communication issued by the prison.
Manuel Augusto Blacker Miller, the former Foreign Minister of Peru, who was serving an 8-year prison sentence by Albanian justice for defrauding two businessmen, has died at the age of 80. He had been hospitalized at the Hamilton Agostinho Penal Hospital, while Albanian authorities were seeking his extradition.
Blacker Miller was in custody in Brazil after being arrested in December by order of the Brazilian Supreme Court, in response to an extradition request filed by Albania, Info Bae reports.
The former minister's legal team had repeatedly reported his delicate health condition, stating that he was suffering from a serious thrombosis, and requested the revocation of his arrest so that he could receive medical care at home. They submitted the request three times and insisted that the Attorney General's Office decide on the matter, without receiving a favorable response.
In January, the prison administration reported that Blacker Miller had suffered two falls inside the prison. After the second fall, he was hospitalized for two days at the Hamilton Agostinho Prison Hospital, where he died on January 23. The preliminary cause of death, according to information provided to the family, was an acute myocardial infarction. His defense team considered access to the patient’s medical records essential and asked the Supreme Court to order the publication of this information.
The death was officially reported to Judge Flávio Dino, who was in charge of the extradition case, through an official communication issued by the prison. Blacker Miller's family traveled to Brazil to make the necessary arrangements.
Sentence in Albania
He was initially convicted by the Tirana Court in May 2017, a decision confirmed by the Appeals Court in November 2018 and then by the Supreme Court in November 2023, making the decision final. The case relates to business agreements from 2012-2013, when Blecker Miller registered the company “Apollon Investment” in Albania and promised two Albanian businessmen, Iljaz Fisheku and Arben Shuaipi, large investments in waste processing and hydrocarbon trading projects.
According to the investigation, he received over 170 thousand euros from them, without realizing the promised investments. After the criminal complaint made in 2014 by the two businessmen, the investigation led to the conviction of the former Peruvian minister, who is now expected to be extradited to Albania to serve his sentence.
He was Foreign Minister in 1992, when Alberto Fujimori led a “coup” to seize power in Peru. Blecker-Miller was accused, along with 10 of his fellow ministers, of participating in that coup. But by 2009, all of the defendants had been acquitted. Since 2002, Blecker-Miller had lived freely in the United States, where he had become a businessman.
In July 2013, it was reported that the Police had arrested former Peruvian Minister Blecker-Miller, wanted by his country through Interpol, and had subsequently been released after questionable procedures.
However, following reports of his possible arrest in the summer of 2013, Socialist MP Erion Braçe, then in the opposition, accused Sali Berisha, the prime minister at the time, of having influenced the release of the former senior Peruvian politician, as "they are jointly running a waste processing business in Fier".
Manuel Augusto Blecker-Miller himself also denied that there was an international arrest warrant against him. He even stated that he had come to Albania in 2012 to develop his waste processing project.
After this uproar, Manuel Augusto Blecker-Miller gained political asylum in Albania in September 2013, while continuing to advance the idea of the project in Fier, through his company "Apollon Investment".
Criminal record in Peru and the political role
Blacker Miller had a criminal record in Peru. In 2007, he was sentenced to 4 years in prison for his participation in the coup d'état of April 5, 1992, carried out by Alberto Fujimori, along with other members of his cabinet at the time. After this sentence, he settled in Europe and devoted himself to business activities, becoming a shareholder in a local company in Albania. He kept a low profile until fraud investigations in that country brought him back into the international spotlight.
In January 2013, the Peruvian state requested his extradition, but the request was rejected because Blacker Miller had acquired Albanian citizenship, which gave him protection from Peruvian justice. /Pamphlet/
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