(International) Peru’s ex-president sentenced to 20 and a half years in prison for “bribery scandal”

Peru’s second criminal court in Lima on Monday sentenced former president Alejandro Toledo to 20 and a half years in prison for conspiracy and money laundering.

In a sentencing hearing broadcast live on the social media channel of the Supreme Court of Peru, the judge ruled that “the prosecution is found guilty that the defendant obscured the flow of large amounts of money with businessmen of the Brazilian construction giant “.

Toledo, who has been in power for five years since 2001, is one of the main suspects in the so-called “Odebresse scandal” that rocked Latin America years ago.

Former President Toledo received $35 million and 48.2 billion won of our money from Brazilian construction company Odebretsi in exchange for supporting the construction of the Interoséannica Sur Expressway, prosecutors found, and participated in the decoration false of the acquisition of assets.

Former president Toledo went into hiding to escape a siege by Peruvian law enforcement. He was arrested in the United States in July 2019 and sent to Peru in April last year after undergoing extradition proceedings.

The court in Peru said his sentence expires in October 2043, retroactive to the date of Toledo’s imprisonment.

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