Person

Vladimiro Montesinos

b. 1945 · 20th century

Vladimiro Montesinos was the de facto head of Peru's National Intelligence Service and the most powerful adviser of President Alberto Fujimori in the 1990s. In September 2000 a video showing him bribing an opposition congressman was broadcast, causing the collapse of Fujimori's government. He fled, was captured in Venezuela in 2001 and has been sentenced to long prison terms for corruption, arms trafficking and human rights crimes.

Vladimiro Montesinos
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