The 21st Liquidating Criminal Court of the Superior Court of Justice of Lima, in charge of Judge Liz Huisa Félix, ordered the definitive seizure in the form of withholding of 1,256,012.99 dollars (4,725,731.52 soles), to the sentenced former presidential adviser Vladimir Montesinos.
This embargo is due to guarantee the payment of the legal interest generated by the delay in the payment of the civil reparations established in the convictions of the March 31 and June 10, 2008.
It should be noted that in 2008 Montesinos Torres, together with his co-defendants Alberto Venero Garrido and Juan Valencia Rosas as primary accomplices in the crime of embezzlement, they were sentenced and ordered to pay civil damages of 10 million soles in favor of the State.
Said sentence occurs in the context of diversion of funds from the items assigned to the National Intelligence Service (SIN)in addition to the funds contributed by some ministries.
According to the ruling, a series of immediate actions were going to be articulated and deployed in order to make possible the appropriation of State money that would ensure the re-election of Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000).
It should be noted that in November 2021, the The Judiciary sentenced Vladimiro Montesinos to 17 years in prison for the kidnapping of journalist Gustavo Gorriti and other victimswhich occurred in 1992, after the self-coup perpetrated by Fujimori.
In the same way, the retired general was sentenced Jose Rolando Valdivia Duenas to 12 years in prison, as well as former generals Julio Salazar Monroe and Alfredo Arnaiz Ambrosianito 10 years in prison, after being recognized as primary accomplices of the crime.
The president of the chamber belonging to the National Superior Court of Specialized Criminal Justice, Miluska Cano, read the sentence against the former adviser, which also includes 12 senior officers from the Army, Navy and Air Force.
As civil compensation, the criminal chamber ordered the payment of 550 thousand soles that will have to be paid to Gorriti and the other aggrieved such as Abel Salinas, Cesar Barrera, Luis Negreiros, Jorge Del Castillo, Mirtha Cunza, Jorge Mantilla, Luis Kitasono, Fernando Reyes Rock and Dionisio Luque.
