17 Another means of harassment used was the campaign to discredit Mr. Ivcher Bronstein in the magazines Si and Genet, both strongly influenced by the Army. Finally, following the report that the Intelligence Service was recording the telephone calls of certain well-known people, the “directorial resolution” which suspended Mr. Ivcher’s Peruvian nationality title was published in the official gazette, El Peruano. As a result, on September 19, the Police Force, directed by a “rather questionable” judge, intervened the Channel, in order to hand over its administration to Samuel and Mendel Winter Zuzunaga (hereinafter the “Winter brothers” or the “minority shareholders”). Subsequently, the news line changed totally and, at all times, it defended the Government and the Army. b) Testimony of Baruch Ivcher Bronstein, alleged victim in the case He arrived in Peru in July 1970 to work for a “small factory called Productos Paraíso del Perú” for two years, together with his brother and some business partners. In 1983, he began taking the steps necessary to obtain Peruvian nationality, which he received at the end of 1984. Prior to 1996, he had never been convicted in either a civil or a criminal proceeding, either within or outside Peru. In 1985, he acquired between 11% and 12% of the shares of Channel 2. In 1986, he obtained 49.53% of the shares and, in 1992, 53.95%, “which is what he [has] today”. The Channel changed completely and became one of those with top ratings. Between December 1995 and February or March 1996, an investigation unit was created and the program Contrapunto was restructured. This program denounced the case of the “drug ‘plane” and broadcast declarations against Mr. Montesinos of a drug-trafficker, known as “Vaticano”; as a result, the tanks and soldiers that had been guarding the Channel since it had suffered a terrorist attack in 1992, were withdrawn. Furthermore, the following day, Alberto Venero visited his offices and said that he had slandered the Army. Mr. Venero also reminded him that he was a naturalized Peruvian and had shares in a mattress factory in Ecuador (at that time, there was much talk of the conflict between Peru and Ecuador). Lastly, Mr. Venero insinuated that he should be very careful, which he took to be a direct threat. Subsequently, the Channel began to promote the Contrapunto programs on Mr. Montesinos, called “Vladimiro I and II”. At that time, Mr. Venero telephoned him and invited him to lunch with Mr. Montesinos, a meeting that never took place. These programs were broadcast on September 29, 1996. After this, an Army Intelligence Service, agent, known as “Besitos” told him that they were investigating his connection with the Ecuadorian army, mentioned that he was a naturalized Israeli and warned him that he should take care because there were those who wanted to kill him. In January 1997, Mr. Pandolfi, Prime Minister of Peru, and Mr. Joy Way, Deputy, visited his office and offered him the equivalent of 19 million dollars, in soles, in exchange for meeting every Friday to decide which investigations would be transmitted on Contrapunto on Sunday, and which would not. On April 7, 1997, the day after Contrapunto had denounced the cases of the Army Intelligence agents, Leonor La Rosa and Mariela Barreto, Peruvian Army helicopters began to fly over the Productos Paraíso del Perú factory, very close to the roof, and this went on for months. When a complaint was made, the Prime Minister advised