Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo surrendered to US law enforcement to be extradited to Peru in connection with a corruption scandal. It has been reported forbes.
Peru’s prosecutor’s office accuses the former president of receiving $20 million from Brazilian construction company Odebrecht. The extradition proceedings took four years.
According to Prensa Latina, 77-year-old politician in Peru threatening 20 years in prison.
Odebrecht was found guilty of bribing officials in 12 Latin American countries over a 20-year period and paid a $2.6 billion fine in 2016.
Alejandro Toledo served as President of Peru from 2001 to 2006 and is the fourth former president of Peru involved in the Brazilian corporate scandal, along with Ollant Humala, Pedro Kuczynski, and later self-destructed Alan Garcia, who served as president from 2011 to 2016. it happened. the arrival of the police to arrest him. Every elected president of Peru since 1985 is either in prison or in prison or under threat of arrest.
previous court elongated Up to 3 years pre-trial detention in a corruption case of another ex-president of Peru, Pedro Castillo.