Prison for Fujimori
Collaborators
Lima - Six Peruvian ex
high ranking military
officials were sentenced
to prison on Friday for
having used military
funds to finance illegal
intelligence operations
by the government of
Alberto Fujimori
(1990-2000).
The sentences, from four
to five years in jail,
were ruled by the IV
Anti-Graft Court, with
ex Armed Forces Chief,
Gen. Nicolas Hermoza, as
main convicted.
Hermoza will have to
serve a five-year
sentence, as will ex
Army chiefs, Gens. Jose
Villanueva and Oscar
Saucedo, and former Air
Force Chief, Gen.
Elesvan Bello.
Ex Chiefs of the
National Intelligence
Service (SIN) Julio
Salazar and Humberto
Rozas were sentenced to
five years in prison.
They were found guilty
of complicity and
embezzlement and
admitted their crimes,
committed by diverting
military funds to covert
operations carried out
by Vladimiro Montesinos.
They will have to pay
the State seven million
soles ($2.33 million) in
civil damages. |
