Fujimori Dictatorship Advisor Montesinos Sentenced To 17 years

[Judi Lynn]

Published 19 November 2021

On Thursday, the Peruvian justice condemned Vladimiro Montesinos to 17 years in prison for having ordered the kidnapping of El Pais journalist Gustavo Gorriti on April 5, 1992. At that time, he was intelligence adviser to the Alberto Fujimori dictatorship (1990-2000).

The court, however, ruled that the punishment has been served given that Montesinos was imposed a 25-year sentence for human rights violations in 2001, and the Peruvian justice system does not add the sentences but imposes the one that has the most years in prison over the rest.

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Between 1991 and 1997, Montesinos ordered the murder of 15 people in Barrios Altos and nine students and one professor at La Cantuta University. He was also behind the torture of intelligent agents Mariela Barreto and Leonor La Rosa.

Besides laundering money, the Fujimori henchman spied and extorted military chiefs, politicians, judges, prosecutors, officials, entrepreneurs, and journalists.

After the dictatorship was overthrown in Nov. 2000, Montesinos fled Peru and hid in Venezuela. Nevertheless, he was extradited from this country in 2021 thanks to the agreements reached with then-President Hugo Chavez.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. Fujimori's ex-strongman sentenced to 17 years for Peru kidnapping

ByAFPPublishedNovember 19, 2021

Vladimiro Montesinos, the jailed former intelligence chief of Peru’s disgraced ex-president Alberto Fujimori, has been handed a 17-year prison sentence for the 1990s kidnapping of a journalist.

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Montesinos was a hardline security chief to Fujimori during his decade-long presidency, from 1990 to 2000.

Like Fujimori he fled the country following the disgraced leader’s downfall, and like him he was eventually extradited back to his homeland to face trial.

The 83-year-old Fujimori is currently serving a 25-year sentence for crimes against humanity and corruption, after being found guilty of ordering two massacres by death squads in 1991 and 1992.

https://www.digitaljournal.com/world/fujimoris-ex-strongman-sentenced-to-17-years-for-peru-kidnapping/article#ixzz7CkHU3R5v