Alejandro Toledo: a cell in Barbadillo ready for the former president

Civilian construction workers have resumed work on the second floor of the prison of Barbadillolocated in Ate Vitarte, since the former president would be detained there Alejandro Toledo, after the American justice ordered his extradition to Peru. Thus, the ex-president will be able to serve the 18 months of preventive detention that the judiciary has ordered him to serve while the Public minister investigating him for the alleged commission of the crimes of collusion and money laundering.

The construction of the ex-president’s cell began in 2018, a year after his order. international plug. However, work has ceased.

Recently, after the international arrest warrant, the Barbabil penal He ordered construction of the cell to continue.

“Engineers who came with a white helmet. They all came. The masons came. They stayed there until 9 p.m.,” a neighbor told Juliana’s Al Estilo show.

He is waiting for the place to be conditioned, so it is likely that Alejandro Toledo will spend his first months in the prison that was intended to ollanta humala, in the prison of Barbadillo. Currently, this 26 square meter space is empty.

Let us remember that former presidents are held on the first floor of this prison Pedro Castillo there Alberto Fujimori.

Of the 10,000 square meters of this prison, most of the territory is occupied by Fujimoriwho has five rooms in his cell: a bedroom, a guest room, a room for painting lessons, a subject and a large garden.

As, Pedro Castillo You have at your disposal a space of 25 square meters, which includes a bedroom, a bathroom, a parlor and a private garden.

Since 2019, Alejandro Toledo He was under house arrest in California. The ex-president stayed out of the country for five years to avoid being arrested in connection with the investigations for the alleged commission of money laundering, in which he would be implicated because, as president of Peru, he would have received more of $30 million. in bribes from part of the construction company Odebrecht.

NOW, Alejandro Toledo He has two options: surrender voluntarily to American justice or wait for the officers to capture him so that they can proceed with his extradition to Peru.

Former prosecutor and criminal lawyer Ivan Meini explained that at the moment everything is in the hands of the authorities Americans.

“In the scenario where he does not surrender voluntarily, and I think that is the most possible scenario, he should be arrested. This is an operation that should be carried out by the American authorities. The Peruvian authorities have not no jurisdiction or jurisdiction on American soil,” Ivan Meini, a former prosecutor and criminal lawyer, told Juliana’s Al Estilo show.

This extradition procedure must be immediate. When Toledo arrives in Peru, he will have to serve 18 months of preventive detention, which in 2017 the judiciary ordered against him.

“Alejandro Toledo has an 18-month preventive detention mandate. What happens is that he fled to the United States. In this case, or even when there is no arrest warrant or valid arrest in the Peruvian State, what must be done is to ask the preliminary investigating judge for preventive detention . This should be done by the public prosecutor, ”added the specialist.