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Vladimiro Montesinos amassed US$600 millions

According to Walter Hoflich, chief of the Financial Unity of the “Procuraduría Anticorrupción del Perú”, the former adviser to president Fujimori Vladimiro Montesinos accumulated US$ 600 millions in different banks in Panama through enterprises and front-men.
The money was placed in 70 accounts and their origin were the illegal commissions for the purchase of weapons for the Peruvian army and from the public funds during the government of Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) and is part of Fujimori´s contingency.
Hoflich explained that the “Procuraduría Anticorrupción de Perú” has asked the authorities of Panama further information about the accounts, though they answered that “it was not possible because the owners of the accounts were Panamanian citizens”, Hoflich added that in 2005 the enterprises and the accounts were owned by Peruvian citizens.
Montesinos fled the country in 2000 and stayed in Panama between September and October, he asked for political asylum but the president of Panama at that time Mrs. Mireya Moscoso denied him the asylum.
Montesinos fled a second time to Venezuela, where he was captured in June 2001 and repatriated to Peru, where he stays in a high security prison in the Navy Base of Callao. He is accused for being the responsible of the biggest corruption net ever discovered in Peru.

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