Alberto Bustamante Belaunde Alberto Bustamante Belaunde José Alberto Bustamante Belaúnde (September 12, 1950 in Arequipa – February 7, 2008 in Lima) was a Peruvian politician. He was the 48th Prime Minister of Peru from 1999–2000, under President Alberto Fujimori. Alberto Bustamante was born in Arequipa on September 12, 1950. He studied Law in Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Bustamante was also a renowned professor of local universities such as the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and the University of Applied Sciences. He worked as adviser to the Foreign Relations Committee of the Congress since July 2007. Bustamante died of a heart attack at
Alberto Fujimori the money to Montesinos but claimed that he had later paid back the money to the state. On 20 July, the court found him guilty of embezzlement and sentenced him to a further seven and a half years in prison. A fourth trial took place in September 2009 in Lima. Fujimori was accused of using Montesinos to bribe and tap the phones of journalists, businessmen and opposition politicians – evidence of which led to the collapse of his government in 2000. Fujimori admitted the charges but claimed that the charges were made to damage his daughter's presidential election campaign. The