In case you ever wondered how Fujimori got enough power to become the demon who ran death squads,

[Judi Lynn]

well, he gained power because he bribed legislators, like Uribe:

PERU: Acquittals for Lawmakers Accused of Taking Bribes
By Ángel Páez

LIMA, Jun 9 (IPS) - A court in Peru acquitted nine former lawmakers accused of taking bribes to switch party allegiance and vote with the government of former President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), so as to assure him majority support for his initiatives.

Vladimiro Montesinos, Fujimori’s former intelligence chief, who like the ex-president is also in prison, had confessed in court to personally making payments to 13 opposition legislators in the year 2000, with funds from the National Intelligence Service (SIN), and provided details of how he had recruited each of the lawmakers.

But the High Court in Lima found that his testimony was insufficient to prove the charges in nine cases, for which verdicts of acquittal were handed down on Jun. 3.

In the 2000 elections, only 52 legislators belonging to Fujimori’s Peru 2000 party were elected, while at least 70 were needed to control the legislature. According to Montesinos, Fujimori ordered him to recruit lawmakers at any price to obtain a majority. The adviser said he paid 13 and offered various favours to five others.

The Court convicted and handed down four-year suspended sentences to former legislators Roger Cáceres, Waldo Ríos, Gregorio Ticona and Antonio Palomo.

Lead prosecutor Avelino Guillén told IPS that "the Court has ruled that Montesinos’ testimony is not enough to convict the turncoat members of Congress, yet it did convict four others based on his testimony."

"If Montesinos’ evidence was enough to convict these four, why wasn’t it for the others? There’s a contradiction here," said Guillén, who is also prosecuting Fujimori in a separate trial for human rights violations.

"If the Court accepts that Montesinos carried out a recruitment operation in order to gain a majority, would four legislators have been enough? The operation was to recruit 18," he said.

The prosecution filed a motion to annul, and now the case will go to the Supreme Court, which will take the final decision.

"He (Fujimori) gave me the order to get a parliamentary majority for Peru 2000 at any price, so that he could be sworn in as president on Jul. 28, 2001," Montesinos testified.

He also wanted "absolute control of the presidency of Congress and its administrative committee, as well as control of all the congressional committees," he added.

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