Montesinos had decided that if Fujimori ousted him, he would stage a military coup.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Fujimori: The other side of the story
If there are cracks in the system, Mr Montesinos will certainly try to exploit them.
His intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, who is serving a 20-year jail sentence, systematically bribed potential opponents.
Perhaps deliberately, this distracted attention from the flight of Vladimiro Montesinos, Mr Fujimori's notorious intelligence chief.
Their commanders, many hand-picked by Mr Montesinos, are still bitter at Mr Fujimori's actions.
Miss Montesinos says any complaints she makes about the behaviour of her father's lawyer are ridiculed.
This week, Mr Fujimori said that he would appoint Mr Montesinos to a formal government post.
Most of it involves exposing and dismantling Mr Montesinos's enormous web of power and corruption.
But a bribery scandal involving former intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos helped tarnish the president's reputation.
Perhaps intentionally, this distracted attention just when Vladimiro Montesinos, Mr Fujimori's now jailed spy chief, fled abroad.
He reckons that, in all, Mr Montesinos and his cronies may have pocketed several hundred million dollars.
Miss Montesinos is now filing an official complaint of battery against Ms Valdivia after her latest visit.
Top of the list of opposition demands is the sacking of Vladimiro Montesinos, the powerful intelligence-service chief.
Around the same time, the station revealed tax documents showing a sharp rise in Mr Montesinos's income.
There can be no understanding of the Fujimori regime without making reference to Vladimiro Lenin Ilich Montesinos Torres.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Fujimori: The other side of the story
Mr Montesinos filmed his bribery and extortion on videos, 700 of which are in the hands of prosecutors.
But many of the Montesinos millions may have come from kickbacks on arms purchases from Belarus and Russia.
ECONOMIST: Japan and the United States have a special duty to help
Peru has appointed a special prosecutor to investigate Mr Montesinos, and the country's Congress is also hearing evidence.
ECONOMIST: Japan and the United States have a special duty to help
The armed forces have been weakened by their entanglement with Vladimiro Montesinos, Mr Fujimori's disgraced head of intelligence.
Almost the entire corps of 50-odd army generals were handpicked by Mr Montesinos, and many were his cronies.
But the biggest challenges are to bring Mr Montesinos to justice, and to clean up the armed forces.
America's support for Peru's disgraced spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, is one unedifying example.
Montesinos was a lawyer who had served in the military for many years.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Fujimori: The other side of the story
Each week brings more revelations about the web of corruption spun by Vladimiro Montesinos, Mr Fujimori's fugitive spy chief.
And the chances that he will be called to account for his decade-long association with Mr Montesinos are rising.
His critics accused him of using the intelligence service led by Mr Montesinos to intimidate and spy on rivals.
His de facto chief of secret police, Vladimiro Montesinos, is also in prison.
But his farcical efforts to find the fugitive Mr Montesinos only underlined how swiftly he had lost control of events.
In an expensive silk shirt and dark trousers, the balding Mr Montesinos sat staring ahead for more than five hours.
But as the democracy talks were starting at a Lima hotel, at the presidential palace Mr Montesinos gave a rare news conference.
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