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Thursday, March 1, 2001
Volume:
17
Issue:
3
95
Abstract:
On January 29, 2001, a U.S. District Court in Miami held an initial hearing for Victor Alberto Venero Garrido, a suspected arms dealer accused of skimming more than $100 million from a government pension fund in Peru who was arrested pending a warrant for his arrest in Peru.
Venero was a key associate of Peruvian spy master Vladimiro Montesinos who was caught on video involved in an alleged bribery effort. The incident led to the fall of the Administration of Alberto Fujimori…[more]