:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/O4PO76ZH35HEVMCPIWHZCL6ZSI.jpeg "Alejandro Toledo: How is the extradition process for the former president accused of money laundering going")
Last Tuesday, the 21st, the Public minister reported that the former president Alejandro Toledo will be extradited from UNITED STATES (USA), as part of the ongoing investigation in Peru, after the confirmation they received from the Department of State of that country.
Alejandro Toledo will be extradited: how long will he be brought to Peru?
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.
The former head of state is under investigation for the alleged crimes of collusion and money laundering during his previous government (2001 – 2006). According to the tax thesis, he received bribes from the construction company Odebrecht (Novonor) -for 35 million dollars- in exchange for the granting of work on the interoceanic highway.
“The Office of the National Attorney, as the central extradition authority, informs that it has been learned that the Department of State of the United States (USA) of America has granted the extradition of Toledo Manrique“said the entity.
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The United States gave the green light to the extradition last September, although the final decision was left to Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Toledo is accused of receiving millionaire bribes from Brazilian company Odebrecht
The extradition process had been suspended for a few months, but in late October last year a court in San Francisco reactivated the measure.
In a press release, the Public Prosecutor’s Office also specified that its Office for International Judicial Cooperation and Extraditions He is already coordinating with domestic and foreign authorities for the next execution of the extradition.
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The former president will arrive in Peru in the coming weeks, after the US State Department granted his extradition for the crimes of collusion and money laundering.
As established, Toledo Manrique should be delivered to US authorities within the next 24 to 48 hours to initiate the process. Currently, he is under house arrest and monitored by an electronic chain.
He senior prosecutor Alfredo Rebazahead of said office within the Public Ministry, stressed that the Peruvian institution is waiting for the American authorities “to confirm that this person is ready to be transferred”.
“SO Peru will confirm what the entourage will be – surely from Interpol and other officials – who will execute this decision fairly. That is, they will go there, execute the delivery and make the transfer in Peruvian territory,” he explained in a dialogue with RPP.
On the possible surrender of Toledo to foreign justice, voluntarily, Rebaza indicated that “you will have the possibility of exercising such an action as soon as the notification of the decision of EU be extradited. »
“Obviously we understand that if he doesn’t surrender, the state will have to enforce its decision to arrest him,” he said.
The extradition would take place more than five years after the prosecution requested it before the first preparatory investigating court on December 29, 2017.
It is expected that the former president, upon his arrival in the country, will serve 18 months of preventive detention after accusations of corruption against him for the tenders for sections 2 and 3 of the southern interoceanic highway. Moreover, he would be held in Barbadillo prison along with other former presidents such as Alberto Fujimori and Pedro Castillo.
Senior prosecutor Alfredo Rebaza also clarified that the prosecutor’s office expects the transfer process to be completed within a few weeks.
“We say this knowingly. There is no strict term, there is no fixed term, but fine-tuning the work and coordination between the two states, hopefully it won’t be more than seven or eight weeks, hopefully it’ll be even less“, he commented.