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Nov. 27, 2000. On November 20, while safe in Japan, Peru's authoritarian President Alberto Fujimori informed his country that he was resigning. But the furious Peruvian Congress rejected his faxed resignation and fired him, instead, as "morally unfit."
Fujimori, 62, abroad for a conference, was feeling the heat of a corruption scandal. His heavy-handed administration began to unravel when his ex-spy chief and former CIA darling, Vladimiro Montesinos, was videotaped offering a bribe to an opposition lawmaker. Charges of money-laundering and death squads followed.
Fujimori himself is rumored to have transfered millions of dollars to Japanese bank accounts during a Singapore layover. Saturday, Peru's interim president, Valentín Paniagua, plucked from Peru's Congressional presidency, swore in his Cabinet. The Cabinet immediately dismissed 15 army generals, mostly pals of Montesinos, now a fugitive.
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