Valentín Paniagua

When Alberto Fujimori fled to Japan in November 2000 after videos showed his spy chief bribing congressmen, Paniagua, the newly elected president of Congress, became interim president of Peru. In eight months he organised what observers judged a clean election, began the anti-corruption prosecutions that eventually jailed Fujimori and his spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos, and created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on the conflict with the Shining Path. He handed over on schedule in July 2001 and never sought the office himself.