Help | Sitemap | Archive | Advanced Search | Mirror in USA   
  CHINA
  BUSINESS
  OPINION
  WORLD
  SCI-EDU
  SPORTS
  LIFE
  WAP SERVICE
  FEATURES
  PHOTO GALLERY
 Globalization Forum

Message Board
Feedback
Voice of Readers
China Quiz
 China At a Glance
 Constitution of the PRC
 State Organs of the PRC
 CPC and State Leaders
 Chinese President Jiang Zemin
 White Papers of Chinese Government
 Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping
 English Websites in China
Help
About Us
SiteMap
Employment

U.S. Mirror
Japan Mirror
Tech-Net Mirror
Edu-Net Mirror
 
Wednesday, December 27, 2000, updated at 13:08(GMT+8)
World  

Unfruitful Search for Montesinos in Venezuela

The search for Peruvian fugitive ex-spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos in Venezuela was unfruitful, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jose Vicente Rangel said Tuesday, December 26.

Rangel told the press that authorities had questioned a Peruvian oil engineer and "it turned out this man has nothing to do with Montesinos".

"We've looked everywhere, airports, land entries to national territory, and we've detected absolutely nothing", he added.

He said that Venezuela had as much interest as Peru in finding Montesinos.

"If Montesinos is in Venezuela, he'd quickly be detained and deported to Peru, we do not protect or shelter people who've participated in violations of human rights or are involved in drug trafficking matters", he affirmed.

The Venezuelan press reported that Montesinos was in Caracas and had a facial surgery.

Montesinos, the powerful right-hand man of ex-president Alberto Fujimori, was declared fugitive by his country's justice, which accused him of illegal enrichment, human right abuses, money laundering from drug trafficking and corruption.

A scandal erupted in Peru in September after a videotape was released showing Montesinos bribing an opposition lawmaker to switch party affiliations in the presidential election. Then it escalated into a political crisis and resulted in the sack of disgraced Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori by the Congress in November.







In This Section
 

The search for Peruvian fugitive ex-spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos in Venezuela was unfruitful, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jose Vicente Rangel said Tuesday, December 26.

Advanced Search


 


 


Copyright by People's Daily Online, all rights reserved