Argentina Detains IMF Official and Former Peruvian Minister on Interpol Warrant

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Tuesday, April 1, 2003
Author: 
Bruce Zagaris
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]