Former Peruvian president Alexander Toledo arrived this Sunday in Lima extradited from the United States to stand trial corruption and money laundering in the context of the mega-scandal of bribes paid by the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.
Toledo, 77, arrived in the Peruvian capital on a flight from Los Angeles and in the custody of Interpol agents. At the international airport Jorge Chávez was received by prosecutors and police, according to images broadcast by television stations.
He is accused of having received millions of dollars from Odebrecht in exchange for public works contracts. ask the prosecutors 20 years and six months in prison.
Peru’s former strongman, who ruled from 2001 to 2006, turned himself in at the request of a judge on Friday morning in a federal court in San Jose, California, for the final phase of the extradition trial.
Once in the hands of the Peruvian authorities, Toledo will be subjected to a legal medical examination and judicial control by a judge and will be transferred to the Barbadillo prison, within the headquarters of the Directorate of Special Police Operations (Diroes), where there are also ex -Presidents Pedro Castillo (2021-2022) and Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) were imprisoned.
In Barbadillo prison he will have to serve 18 months of preventive detention pending the start of his trial.
Toledo denied the allegations and filed several petitions to block the extradition that Peru has been seeking since 2018 and which the United States authorized in February.
Toledo was arrested in 2019 in the United States, where he resided after working at Stanford University. He was initially jailed, but in 2020 he was placed under house arrest and required to wear an electronic anklet.
Source: Clarin
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