LIMA, Peru (AP) – Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori’s intelligence chief was sentenced Wednesday to 19 years and 8 months in prison in connection with the 1992 massacre of six suspected rebels in central Peru. It was announced.
Vladimiro Montesinos, who has already served time in prison for previous convictions, pleaded guilty earlier this week to charges of murder, manslaughter and forced disappearance for ordering the killing of six farmers in the town of Patibirka. Six people were accused of being members of the rebel group, taken from their homes by soldiers and executed.
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Mr. Montesinos, a former military officer and lawyer for drug traffickers in the 1980s, became intelligence director after Mr. Fujimori was elected president in 1990. Fujimori, who is charged in the case, has also not pleaded guilty and is expected to go to trial over his role.
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The former president, now 85, was released in December after Peru’s Constitutional Court ruled that a presidential pardon granted to Fujimori in 2017 should be upheld. Fujimori was serving a 25-year sentence for the murder of 25 Peruvians by suicide squad members in the 1990s.
Montesinos has been in prison since 2001, accused of numerous corruption schemes and human rights violations. He remains incarcerated in a prison along the Pacific coast that he helped design during his time in power under the Fujimori government from 1990 to 2000.
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His actions led to the downfall of Fujimori’s presidency, as secret tapes were leaked showing him paying bribes to members of Congress, businessmen, and media moguls to buy support for his government.
