Former Peruvian intelligence chief gets 19 years in prison for 1992 massacre of farmers

[Judi Lynn]

Associated Press
January 31, 2024·1 min read

LIMA, Peru (AP) — The intelligence chief of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was sentenced Wednesday to 19 years and eight months in prison in connection with the 1992 massacre of six suspected rebels in central Peru.

Vladimiro Montesinos, already in prison due to previous convictions, earlier this week pleaded guilty to charges of homicide, murder and forced disappearance for ordering the slayings of the six farmers in the town of Pativilca. The six were accused of being members of a rebel group, taken from their homes by soldiers and executed.

A former military officer and a lawyer for drug traffickers in the 1980s, Montesinos became intelligence chief after Fujimori was elected president in 1990. Fujimori, who also faces charges in the case, has not pleaded guilty and a trial is expected on his role.

The former president, now 85, was released from prison in December, after Peru’s constitutional court ruled that a presidential pardon that had been awarded to Fujimori in 2017 should be upheld. Fujimori had been serving a 25-year sentence in connection with the slayings of 25 Peruvians by death squads in the 1990s.

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https://news.yahoo.com/former-peruvian-intelligence-chief-gets-201504261.html

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Montesinos was always such a delicate man!



NEWS
Peru's Ex-Spy Chief Faints During Trial
March 20, 2003

Once-feared former spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos fainted in court Thursday, delaying his sentencing on charges that he helped his former mistress' brother get out of jail. Since his corruption trials began last month, Montesinos, 57, has gone on a hunger strike and told prison psychiatrists he was depressed and mentally unfit to stand trial.


The fallen spy chief also has refused to testify throughout the public trial _ the first of some 60 he faces _ claiming that the tribunal is incompetent to judge him.

The charge Montesinos faced Thursday was for influence peddling, a minor offense among the dozens of charges before him that range from corruption to drug trafficking, arms dealing and directing a death squad.

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Montesinos has already received a nine-year sentence handed down in a closed-court trial in July for illegally taking control of Peru's intelligence agency.
A corruption scandal involving Montesinos triggered the collapse of former President Alberto Fujimori's decade-long regime in November 2000. Montesinos was captured in Venezuela 21 months ago. Fujimori fled to Japan.

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https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Peru-s-Ex-Spy-Chief-Faints-During-Trial-7196107.php

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Washington-favored right-wing Latin American officials seem to be a travel-loving bunch, so many of them are extradited from foreign countries so they can be tried in their home countries! The human rights abusers among them seem to love moving to Florida.