Peru's Fujimori gets 6 years prison for bribes

LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's Supreme Court convicted and sentenced former President Alberto Fujimori to six years in prison on Wednesday for wiretapping opponents and paying bribes to lawmakers and publishers during his rule from 1990 to 2000.

Fujimori, 71, was credited with defeating the leftist Shining Path rebels in a bloody civil war and taming economic chaos before his government collapsed in a corruption scandal in 2000 and he fled to Japan, where his parents were born.

(Reporting by Terry Wade and Marco Aquino)