:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/U6Q5DE2N5RA7PMPOFNFGLSLSW4.jpg "Alejandro Toledo and other former presidents implicated in acts of corruption with the Odebrecht company")
Alejandro Toledo He is not the only former President of the Republic who is peppered with alleged bribes from Brazilian society Odebrecht. According to Public ministerthe leader of the late party Perú Posible received a bribe of 35 million dollars for work on the interoceanic highway created by his government from 2001-2006. Also former presidents Alan Garcia, Ollanta Humala and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski they were marred by the corruption plot.
“Hey, Cheap, pay hell”: The phrase that got Alejandro Toledo involved in the Odebrecht case
According to the prosecution, the former Peruvian president and husband of Eliane Karp received $31 million in bribes from the Brazilian construction company.
Regarding García, it was discovered that he had received $100,000 from Odebrecht in exchange for a conference in the city of Sao Paulo in 2012. Thanks to this money, the prosecutor Jose Domingo Perezmember of Lava Jato Special Team, followed the trail. On Wednesday, April 17, his ten-day pre-trial detention was ordered, but just as this order was about to be carried out, the Aprista leader decided to kill himself with a single shot.
Previously, the former president (1985-1990 and 2006-2011) had tried in vain to obtain political asylum at the embassy of Uruguay in Lima to escape the action of the prosecutor’s office. However, the regime then Tabare Vasquez decided not to grant García’s request to return to his home, where he spent the last days of his life exclaiming that he was innocent and that they would show him the proof he had received from the money from Odebrecht.
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Senior prosecutor Alfredo Rebaza, head of the National Prosecutor’s Office for Extraditions, announced that Peruvian and American authorities will coordinate the route, air means, date and time of the transfer of the former Peruvian president being investigated for corruption.
For its part, in the case of Humala, the assumption of the public prosecutor’s office is that the leader of the disappeared Peruvian Nationalist Party received three million dollars for his 2011 presidential campaign when he won the victory over Keiko Fujimori. The accusation rests essentially on the statement that Jorge Barataformer representative of the Brazilian construction company, against Humala Tasso.
Because of this affair, Humala and his wife Nadine Heredia They spent nine months in pre-trial detention. However, a failure of constitutional Court In April 2018, he ordered their release so that they could face their investigation freely.
The last interview in which Alejandro Toledo denied Odebrecht bribes: ‘I never received it, and I will prove it as soon as possible’
The former President of the Republic spoke out for the last time in 2018 on the accusations of the prosecution who accused him of having received a bribe of 35 million dollars for the construction of sections two and three of the interoceanic highway.
Despite this, the former presidential couple has already been facing an oral trial in the Odebrecht case since last April. At this stage, the declarations of Cheap, Odebrecht, former officials Luiz Antonio Mameri and Fernando Migliaccio da Silva.
The prosecution requested 20 years in prison for Humala and 26 years for Heredia. The former presidential couple wanted to evade legal action last December, but the Permanent Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Courtpresided over by the judge Cesar San Martindeclared unfounded the appeals seeking to establish that the alleged contributions from the past presidential campaigns of 2006 and 2011 were not money laundering offences.
These contributions were made by the Venezuelan mandate of Hugo Chávez and by Brazilian construction companies Odebrecht (now Novonor) and OAS.
