Ex-Peruvian president Fujimori jailed after first trial

The first trial involved one of the lesser crimes of which he is accused, which was committed in 2000, as his presidency was wracked by a series of corruption scandals that followed the rigged election that handed him a third term in office that year.

In this proceeding, conducted in closed session before a single judge, Fujimori was charged with ordering a military aide to masquerade as a prosecutor and carry out an illegal raid on the apartment belonging to the wife of the president’s key henchman, Vladimiro Montesinos.

Montesinos, who had fled the country just days before the raid, was Fujimori’s chief advisor as well as the de facto chief of Peru’s secret police apparatus. He had amassed a library of thousands of secretly filmed videotapes—popularly known as vladivideos—implicating Peruvian officials, politicians and businessmen in corruption scandals.