Vladimiro Montesinos is convicted of the murder of the former agent of the Army Intelligence Service Mariella Barreto in 1997
The Peruvian Judiciary has sentenced Vladimiro Montesinos, former head of the National Intelligence Service (SIN) and adviser to former President Alberto Fujimori, to 23 years in prison for the murder of the former agent of the Army Intelligence Service (SIE). Mariella Barreto in 1997.
«The Fourth Transitory Liquidating Criminal Chamber of the National Superior Court sentences Vladimiro Montesinos (mediate author) and Martín Rivas (author) -the former head of the paramilitary group Colina- to 23 years in prison for qualified homicide with the aggravating circumstance of treachery for the murder of Mariella Barreto”, has published the Judiciary of Peru on its Twitter account.
The others convicted in the case Carlos Sanchez Noriega (15 years) now Jose Salinas Zuzunaga (8 years old), who participated in the “kidnapping, murder and dismemberment” of Barreto for leaking to the press the crimes of the Colina Group and their plans to kill journalists who criticize former President Fujimori, according to the Peruvian newspaper ‘La República’ .
Fourth Transitory Criminal Settlement Chamber of the National Superior Court sentences Vladimiro Montesinos (mediate perpetrator) and Martín Rivas (perpetrator) to 23 years in prison for qualified homicide with the aggravating circumstance of treachery for the murder of Mariella Barreto
– Judicial Power Peru (@Poder_Judicial_) June 16, 2023
However, Judge Miluska Cano has established that “the sentences imposed must be computed from the year in which these criminals are imprisoned«.
Montesinos has been serving a sentence since June 2001 for embezzlement, abuse of power, bribery, or influence peddling, among other crimes; In 2021 he was found guilty of kidnapping, but the 17-year sentence was “purged” for being already in prison.
