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Vladimiro Montesinos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Subsequent investigations revealed Montesinos was at the centre of a vast web of illegal activities, including embezzlement, graft, and drug trafficking, for which he is currently being tried. Frequently, Montesinos secretly videotaped himself bribing individuals in his office, and he made thousands of such tapes (it is said the approximate number of tapes is 2700), incriminating politicians, officials and military officers and, in all probability, Fujimori himself. As of 2005, Montesinos is imprisoned at the Callao maximum-security prison naval base (which was built under his orders during the 1990s) and is facing sixty-three charges that range from drug trafficking to murder. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vladimiro_Montesinos   (2664 words)

Peru ex-spy chief Montesinos convicted of first of 70 criminal charges (Associated Press - 1 July 2002) Montesinos, accused of orchestrating a vast network of corruption during former President Alberto Fujimori's rule, was sentenced to nine years in prison for seizing control of the National Intelligence Service while serving as an adviser to the agency. Montesinos, wearing a fl Windbreaker and dark slacks, reacted coolly as a court secretary read the verdict in a makeshift courtroom at a naval base outside Lima where he is being held in a maximum-security prison. Montesinos' lawyer, Estela Valdivia, told reporters after the hearing that the ruling was unjust because it did not recognize that Montesinos used his power to defeat Peru's guerrilla movements and bring peace to a country bloodied by years of leftist insurgency. www.freelori.org /news/02jul01_ap.html   (621 words)

Peru Montesinos Toledo Fujimori Vladimiro Ilyich Montesinos is not only the former de facto chief of the Peruvian intelligence, Servicio de Inteligencia Nacional (SIN), he was the adviser and, together with the military, the most important power base of President Alberto Fujimori. Montesinos suddenly had access to classified information and that is when his obsessive chase for compromising material, useful to flmail all sorts of people, began. Montesinos is considered the architect of the successful war of the army against the Maoist movement of the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path). www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo11/peru.htm   (1201 words)

Human Rights Concerns: Political Asylum in Panama for Vladimiro Montesinos Torres (Letter to Gaviria, Sept 2000) Third, Montesinos is guilty of numerous actions subverting the rule of law and democratic institutions in Peru, acts that are clearly contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations. It is obvious that Montesinos expects Panama to grant his request for asylum not on its merits, but because of his continuing capacity to disrupt Peru's return to democracy, and to threaten the stability of the region. Secretary General, instead of seeking to establish favorable conditions for Montesinos in Panama, the OAS and its member states should be seeking his immediate arrest, together with the retirement of the officers appointed by him to the armed forces command. www.hrw.org /press/2000/09/gaviria-ltr0928.htm   (977 words)

CNN.com - Peru's fugitive ex-spy chief taken to air base - June 24, 2001 Montesinos had fled from Peru after being accused of a number of crimes, including stealing state funds, taking kickbacks from illegal drugs and arms deals, running death squads, and ordering torture of opponents. Montesinos was captured by officials from Venezuela's military intelligence at 10 p.m. Montesinos sparked a scandal in Peru, where he was caught on videotape apparently bribing a congressman. archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/americas/06/24/peru.montesinos   (405 words)

[No title] Montesinos was seized inside a Caracas safehouse late Saturday, a beaming President Hugo Chavez announced during a summit of Andean leaders in the central Venezuelan city of Valencia. But Montesinos' fall began in September when videos were broadcast on television appearing to show him bribing an opposition congressman to support the government. Montesinos - who moved frequently to avoid detection - was supposed to slip to another hiding place, Chavez said. www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/2001cov/Chavez_captures_Montesinos   (652 words)

Vladimiro Montesinos / g c i 275 Fujimori's Rasputin: The Declassified Files on Peru's Former Intelligence Chief, Vladimiro Montesinos (November 22, 2000) and update from November 21, 2001. Montesinos was the security advisory to Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori for 10 years. In other tapings, Montesinos and associates spoke blatantly about manipulating the courts, the media and the political system to guarantee their control of the country. www.gci275.com /peru/montesinos.shtml   (832 words)

AlterNet: CIA Gave $10 Million to Peru's Ex-Spymaster Vladimiro Montesinos, who now faces trial on murder, arms and drug trafficking charges, used millions of CIA dollars to, among other things, send guns to Colombia's FARC guerrillas. Montesinos disappeared in October as the regime of Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori collapsed under wide-ranging corruption allegations and was seized in Venezuela on Saturday night, June 23. Montesinos was returned to Peru on June 25 to face an array of government charges. www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=11131   (1303 words)

FUJIMORI'S SVENGALI, by Gustavo Gorriti Montesinos went from an early experience of power to an enterprise in betrayal; from utter disgrace and pariah status to a quest for revenge, victory, and power. Montesinos would occasionally give her a ride in his big American car from the Ministry to Military Region II's headquarters the stronghold of the radical officers to deliver documents taken from the ministry. Montesinos' next step in consolidating power was to neutralize those elements in the army which had thwarted his ambitions in the past. ciadrugs.homestead.com /files/peru03.html   (9712 words)

Peru's Montesinos begins hunger strike, wife says   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Radioprogramas, Peru's most respected news station, quoted Trinidad Becerra as saying her husband had not eaten since Thursday and would not eat until he was moved to a civilian prison because he did not belong with terrorists. Montesinos was apprehended by Venezuelan military intelligence on June 23, ending an eight-month manhunt. Montesinos faces 52 open court cases on charges including drug trafficking, arms dealing and directing death squads during 10 years as the top aide to disgraced ex-President Alberto Fujimori. www.usatoday.com /news/world/june01/2001-06-29-peru-montesinos.htm   (378 words)

Worldandnation: Peru's top spy lands in Panama The flight, unthinkable until a bribery scandal involving Montesinos broke 10 days ago, appeared to be the result of diplomatic intervention by the United States, other Latin American countries and the Organization of American States. Montesinos immediately dropped out of sight, and for a week it was unclear whether he was defying the president with the backing of the military or relying on Fujimori to protect him from opposition demands that he be arrested and tried on corruption charges. Opposition parties vowed to boycott a "national dialogue" sponsored by the OAS until Montesinos was fired, arguing that his control of the electoral commission made a clean and fair vote impossible. www.sptimes.com /News/092500/news_pf/Worldandnation/Peru_s_top_spy_lands_.shtml   (870 words)

The Fordham Institute for Ethics and Economic Policy (FIEEP) at Fordham University Montesinos was found guilty of paying millions of dollars in bribes to television executives to buy their support for Fujimori’s candidacy during his 2000 reelection campaign. Montesinos, who is the architect of the web of corruption that has been spreading through Peru for over a decade now, had sparked off a major corruption scandal when a secret videotape showed him bribing a congressman. Montesinos, now jailed under several charges including extortion, arms smuggling and drug trafficking, is believed to have had a web of corruption across the Peruvian Government, military and media, and is said to have secretly videotaped all his dealings. www.fordham.edu /economics/vinod/CIE/peru.htm   (10323 words)

Peru President's Closest Adviser Linked to Torture, Murder, Drugs However, Vladimiro Montesinos, is a long time CIA asset and US policy in Peru has been to relegate cocaine production to the back burner while United States anti-drug aid is devoted to crushing a left wing rebellion. Montesinos was an Army artillery captain and aide to one of Peru's leading generals when he was recruited by the CIA, according to Peruvian Army Major Jose Fernandez Slavatecci, in his autobiography "Yo Acuso (I accuse)". Montesinos also chose his new Chief of Staff, General Jose Valdivia, who had been accused of covering up the Armed Forces massacre of 28 peasants at a wedding in the Ayacucho village of Cayara in 1988. ciadrugs.homestead.com /files/peru01.html   (1020 words)

'The Doctor' Divided U.S. Officials (washingtonpost.com) Vladimiro Montesinos, the intelligence chief at the center of a volatile confrontation in Peru, also has been a source of friction inside the U.S. government over the past decade. Montesinos is the most recent in a long line of intelligence assets, including Chilean intelligence chief Manuel Contreras and Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega, who ended up behind a changing policy curve. Montesinos sought out U.S. officials early in Fujimori's first term and presented himself as the president's emissary, reactivating the CIA relationship. www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A54330-2000Sep21¬Found=true   (1682 words)

FRONTLINE/WORLD . Dispatches . Dispatches . Peru: Busted | PBS Montesinos also fled, but was finally captured in Venezuela and returned to Peru to face more than 70 criminal charges. Vladimiro Montesinos was arrrested in Caracas, Venezuela, and extradicted to Peru the day after his capture. Montesinos was ushered into a car where he was laid down in the back and wrapped in a blanket, unable to move or see. www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/blog/2005/11/peru_busted.html   (1728 words)

The Imperfect Spy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) By the end of the 1990s, Vladimiro Montesinos, traitor, trafficker and spy, was running Peru. After Fujimori’s military-backed coup in 1992, Montesinos made the armed forces his constituency; with the dismissal of independent ministers in 1995 and the expulsion of the President’s brother from the inner circle, he felled his political opponents. From his office, the nerve center of the intelligence service, known as the SIN, he kept watch by closed-circuit monitors on what was going on at the airport, and in government offices; he could listen in on phone calls being made by the President, opposition congress people, army generals. www.theimperfectspy.com /introducingmontesinos.html   (1216 words)

Without Impunity - vii.n.2 - Vladimiro Montesinos Montesinos first appeared at Fujimori's side to defend him against charges of real estate fraud when Fujimori was running for president. On September 5, 1976, Montesinos flew to the U.S. as a guest of the U.S. government. Less than a year after Demetrio Chavez claimed that he paid Montesinos $50,000 a month to protect his drug operations, the Peruvian press reported that Montesinos' tax records showed that he had an income of $600,000 per year, although his official salary was just $18,000 per year. www.derechos.org /wi/2/america.html   (929 words)

HOW TO STEAL A DEMOCRACY / In Peru, bribes were bigger for media barons than for judges Montesinos was seen paying opposition politician Alberto Kouri $15,000 per month to switch sides and support the president. Montesinos was arrested in Venezuela and returned to Peru to be charged not only with corruption but murder, arms running and drug dealing. Montesinos told some people he was taping their meetings. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/22/ING1L6O0BK34.DTL&feed=rss.opinion   (2029 words)

Vladimiro Montesinos - The Declassified Record It describes that Montesinos was arrested, tried and cashiered from the army after returning from a trip to the United States, for which he failed to receive permission. Dean notes that Montesinos was in key sensitive positions, is probably in possession of a great deal of inside information, and has obviously made personal and ideological enemies. Montesinos claims that Army Chief of Staff General Pedro Richter authored a report listing him as a liaison between high Peruvian government officials and the U.S. State Department and passed information “prejudicial to state security” to the State Deparment. www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB37/index2.html   (485 words)

Narco News Reports on the Citigroup-Montesinos Connection As long as Montesinos was an "intelligence asset" of the CIA and U.S. government, Citibank and the other U.S. banks knew they could safely look the other way without provoking the attention of the authorities who, supposedly, prosecute illicit money laundering. And yet, it was not until after Montesinos' fall from grace with U.S. authorities that Citibank moved against his money-laundering operation, by alerting federal authorities to the accounts of the "bagman," Venero. But Montesinos and Fujimori were still in power then, and their bagmen and money-launderers could still count with immunity and impunity from U.S. authorities. www.narconews.com /montesinosgroup.html   (2354 words)

Worldandnation: Pursuers closing in (they think) on spy-turned-fugitive Montesinos has been on the run since October, dodging an international hunt that now includes police from at least three countries, including the FBI. A master of subterfuge, Montesinos is alleged to have used several fake passports and identities, while also calling on a network of well-placed friends for help. FBI counter-terrorism agents based in Miami were called in after Montesinos was linked to the smuggling of thousands of AK-47 assault rifles to Colombian guerrillas in return for cocaine. www.sptimes.com /News/050301/news_pf/Worldandnation/Pursuers_closing_in_t.shtml   (1100 words)

Lima Has-Been By June Thomas Spurned, Montesinos returned to Peru last Monday, telling Peruvian radio from a secret hideout that operatives from the various radical groups and drug cartels he had battled in his years as head of the intelligence service had traveled to Panama to kill him, making him fear for his life. Montesinos still controls the armed forces." An editorial in Peru's anti-Fujimori daily La República called Fujimori and Montesinos "twin souls to the end" and was also unconvinced that the two men had fallen out. It claimed that the president himself had authorized Montesinos' plane to land in Peru and that he was protecting him in a secret military installation. www.slate.com /id/92252/device/html40   (1192 words)

Vladimiro Montesinos News - The New York Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Vladimiro Montesinos, the once-feared Peruvian spy chief, was convicted on Monday in the first of more than 60 public trials he faces. Vladimiro Montesinos's onetime mistress furiously accused him of trying to sully her name in order to save himself from jail. Vladimiro L. Montesinos, once one of Peru's most feared men, has been sentenced to nine years in prison after being convicted in the first of more than 70 criminal charges against him. topics.nytimes.com /top/reference/timestopics/people/m/vladimiro_montesinos   (429 words)

Former Head of Peruvian Intelligence on Public Trial - Pravda.Ru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Vladimiro Lenin Montesinos, named after the Russian Revolutionary Vladimir Illich Ulianov, is not only the former de facto chief of the Peruvian intelligence, Servicio de Inteligencia Nacional (SIN), he was the adviser and, together with the military, the most important power base of President Alberto Fujimori. In 1990, as Fujimori rose to power, Montesinos became the president's advisor and mediator in his relations with the SIN and the army. Montesinos was sent to prison, while Fujimori fled to Japan, where Nippon's Government still protects him. english.pravda.ru /world/2003/02/19/43466.html   (712 words)

CSRP: Murderers Makeover - US Intrigue Surrounds Montesinos Affair (Nov 00) Montesinos, Peru’s top spy master and key CIA contact, is rumored to have a huge library of incriminating videos that he uses in his shady dealings. Montesinos following strong endorsement of this action by the OAS secretary general, supported by countries in the hemisphere, including the United States.” Once again, the U.S. was using Panama to stow one of its hit men. When Montesinos was allowed to enter Panama at the end of September, rumors flew that the Peruvian military was threatening to carry out a coup if he was not granted formal political asylum. www.csrp.org /cmte/makeover-nov00.htm   (2924 words)

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