Clemente Jaime Yoshiyama Tanaka (born 23 July 1944) is a Peruvian

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politician of

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descent. He was the

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of the

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from December 1992 to July 1995. He was also the Minister of the Presidency during the administration of President

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Early life and education

Yoshiyama was born on 23 July 1944 in

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, Junín. He is graduated in Industrial Engineering. He attended

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, a prestigious Peruvian postgraduate School, and graduated as a Valedictorian in 1967 getting an MBA degree. He earned scholarships to attend Michigan State University graduating with a Master in Business Administration in 1969, and

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with a Master in Public Administration (Economics and Economic Development) 1976.

Political career

In July 1990 he was President of the Board of Directors of Electrolima and then President of the Committee on Privatizacion of Public Enterprises (Comisión de Privatización de la empresas Públicas (COPRI)). He was the founder of the

alliance

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- New Majority. He was the

of the

from 1992 to 1995. He was also the Minister of Transport and Communications (January–October 1991), Minister of Energy and Mines (February–November 1992), and Minister of the Presidency (November 1995–September 1996), during the first and second term of

, respectively. Born in

, Yoshiyama ran for

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in the 1995 Lima municipal elections but lost to opposition candidate Alberto Andrade of We Are Lima. In the 2011 general elections, he ran for Second Vice President under the Force 2011 ticket of Fujimori's daughter Keiko but, the ticket narrowly lost to the ticket of

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in the runoff.

Conviction and sentence

On June 21, 2006, judicial proceedings were initiated against Yoshiyama and twelve other former ministers of Alberto Fujimori for their involvement in the 1992 self-coup. In December 2007, Yoshiyama was found guilty on a charge of rebellion but was only given a four-year suspended sentence as he was considered a secondary accomplice.

Odebrecht case

Since November 11, 2018, he has had an international arrest warrant for allegedly having received illicit money from the Odebrecht company for the 2011 presidential campaign of Keiko Fujimori, who is also detained. On March 11, 2019, he surrendered to justice and was interned in the Castro Castro Prison, where there are people linked to Fuerza Popular.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yoshiyama Tanaka, Jaime Living people 1944 births Fujimorista politicians Presidents of the Congress of the Republic of Peru Members of the Democratic Constituent Congress People from Huancayo Peruvian politicians of Japanese descent Harvard Kennedy School alumni Michigan State University alumni