Vladimiro Montesinos, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Former Head of Peruvian Intelligence Service
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Place of Birth: Arequipa, Peru
About Vladimiro Montesinos
- Vladimiro Lenin Ilich Montesinos Torres (born May 20, 1946) is a former long-standing head of Peru's intelligence service, Servicio de Inteligencia Nacional (SIN), under President Alberto Fujimori.
- In the year 2000 the infamous "Vladi-videos" came to light through the television: they were secret videos recorded by Montesinos that showed him bribing elected congressmen into leaving the opposition and joining the Fujimorist side of the Congress.
- The ensuing scandal caused Montesinos to flee the country and prompted the resignation of Fujimori. Subsequent investigations revealed Montesinos to be at the centre of a vast web of illegal activities, including embezzlement, graft, gunrunning, and drug trafficking.
- He has been tried, convicted and sentenced for numerous charges.
- Montesinos had strong connections with the CIA (the United States Central Intelligence Agency) and was said to have received $10 million from the agency for his government's anti-terrorist activities.
- Montesinos is a cousin of the incarcerated terrorist leader Óscar RamÃrez Durand, a.k.a.
- "Feliciano".
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