Overview
- The Rio de Janeiro state penitentiary authority confirmed he died on January 23 of cardiorespiratory arrest at the Hospital Penal Hamilton Agostinho in the Gericinó complex.
- He had been detained on December 11, 2025 in Rio’s Flamengo neighborhood under an Albanian international warrant seeking his extradition for alleged financial fraud and money laundering.
- Defense lawyers filed three motions to revoke his detention on medical grounds, citing severe thrombosis, and pressed Peru’s state legal office without obtaining relief.
- He had obtained Albanian citizenship and, as a fugitive since 2018, lived in the United States and Europe while subject to an Interpol red notice, which he disputed.
- He served as Peru’s foreign minister in 1991–1992 under Alberto Fujimori, supported the April 5, 1992 self-coup, and received a four-year suspended sentence from Peru’s Supreme Court in 2007.