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Security & Strategic Review - November 2014 (ISSN 1741-4202)
PERU: ‘Biggest organised crime web since Montesinos’
What started as an investigation into corruption in the regional government of Áncash, whose president has been jailed on suspicion of murder, has led to the uncovering of what is being described as the biggest organised crime network in Peru since the days of Vladimiro Montesinos (the head of intelligence under the disgraced former president, Alberto Fujimori [1990-2000]). It involves government officials and members of the police and the judiciary, involved in large-scale corruption, money laundering and the drugs trade.
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