Tuesday, April 1, 2003
Volume:
19
Issue:
4
140
Abstract:
On February 13, 2003, an Argentine federal court held a hearing and ordered the detention of Jorge Baca Compodónico, a former minister of finance in Peru, on an Interpol arrest warrant in connection with a request of the Peruvian Government. A Peruvian court has accused him of illegally waiving the tax payments of hundreds of people on the orders of Vladimiro Montesinos, a former head of Peruvian intelligence…[more]