Former president of Peru, Alejandro Toledo, enters prison for the Odebrecht case

The former Peruvian president Alexander Toledoinvestigated for corruption and money laundering in the framework of the mega-scandal of the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, entered a prison in Lima this Sunday, after being extradited from the United States, AFP journalists found.

Toledo, 77, who ruled Peru from 2001 to 2006, arrived in a police helicopter at the Barbadillo prison, east of Lima, where former presidents Pedro Castillo (2021-2022) and Alberto Fujimori (1990) are also imprisoned. -2000).

The former Peruvian president turned himself in on Friday to US authorities after more than six years in the extradition process.

Toledo arrived in Peru on a commercial flight at the Jorge Chávez de Lima airport, in the Peruvian capital, escorted by security agents to face corruption charges.

The magistrate, Margarita Salcedo, in charge of hearing the case, confirmed that Toledo will be 18 months old preventive prison imposed against you.

The prosecution has filed charges against the peruvian former president for money laundering and collusion, charges that the former president rejects.

Official images shared by the Peruvian police showed the former official standing with his hands covered in a black garment, led by one of the officers to the police aviation headquarters near the airport.

The former president is accused in Peru of allegedly having received 35 million dollars in bribes from the Brazilian company Odebrecht in exchange for winning the construction of the Interoceánica Sur highway, according to the local prosecutor’s office, which has requested a 20-year prison sentence against him.

Of Andean origin and who as a child was a shoeshine boy, Toledo was detained in the United States in 2019 after a formal request for Peru for his extradition. A year earlier he had left the country and the justice system declared him a fugitive. In 2020 he was released on bail and since then he has lived in the state of California.

Before the judge ordered Toledo to be taken to prison, his lawyer, Roberto Su, told reporters that he was against the measure due to the former president’s precarious state of health.

The corruption scandals of Odebrecht They have splashed various governments in Latin America and involved almost all the former Peruvian presidents of the last two decades.

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