The United States federal judge ordered the arrest of the former Peruvian president this Wednesday. Alexander Toledo to be extradited to Peru, where he is acUse of corruption by the Odebrecht case.
During a video conference hearing, California Judge Thomas Hixson orders the former president to surrender to the enforcement officers next Friday At 9:00 am local time (16:00 GMT) on the west coast of the United States.
Specifically, the man who was president of the Andean country between 2001 and 2006 has to go to the Robert F. Peckham building, which was then the headquarters of the Northern District Court of California in San José (California).
The judge’s decision states, “This court orders that Toledo be confined to a prison, where he will remain until his surrender to the Peruvian authorities is complete.”
Toledo, residing in San Francisco, He was supposed to be arrested for extradition on April 7, but delays the process through various legal sources.
Finally, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a request for a new hearing to reconsider the president’s handover to Peru, and the US Attorney General’s Office on Wednesday asked the judge to reactivate the arrest warrant.
Toledo, 77, was arrested in California in 2019 and spent 8 months in prison for risking escape.Despite being placed under house arrest with the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic in March 2020.
Last September, the US Department of Justice gave the green light to his extradition to Peru, finding sufficient evidence to justify this measure, which was approved by the State Department last February.
Toledo He is blamed in his country for receiving about $34 million from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.Through a network of companies in tax havens, where he bought million-dollar real estate in Peru.
Specifically, it was researched by Toledo. Allegedly committing crimes of money laundering, collusion and influence trading, Regarding the contracts awarded to Odebrecht for the construction of the Transoceanic Route between Brazil and Peru.
Odebrecht case The biggest corruption scandal in Latin Americashe is also the daughter of former Peruvian presidents Alan García (1985-1990 and 2006-2011), Ollanta Humala (2011-2016) and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016-2018), three-time presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori, and former heir policy of president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000).