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Alexandre Toledo ManriquePresident of Peru between the years 2001 – 2006, will be extradited to Peru from the United States and must answer in Peruvian courts for allegedly receiving a bribe from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht and for alleged money laundering in the case Ecoteva.
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.
Via his Twitter account, Public minister confirmed the decision of United States Department of State to grant the extradition of the ex-president and added that the Office for International Judicial Cooperation and Extraditions of the National Public Prosecutor’s Office He has already coordinated with domestic and foreign authorities for the next execution of the extradition.
The Odebrecht Society Corruption Scandal has implicated leaders and political figures from various countries. Alejandro Toledo was one of them.
Alejandro Toledo will be extradited to Peru, the Public Ministry has confirmed
The United States Department of State authorized the return of the former president
According to the prosecutor’s office investigation, the former president reportedly received $32 million favor the Brazilian construction company in the call for tenders for sections 2 and 3 of the interoceanic highway. In the midst of proceedings for this corruption scandal, in January 2017, Jorge Barata, The executive director of Odebrecht in Peru, admitted that the construction company had made payments to Toledo Manrique in order to obtain the tender for the interoceanic highway.
Josef Maimana friend of Alejandro Toledo, in his statement to the prosecutor’s office, admitted to having received payment from the millionaire from the Brazilian construction company, money which would then have ended up in the company Ecoteva Consulting Group.
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For this case of collusion, the Public Prosecutor’s Office requested 20 years and 6 months in prison.
The prosecution’s hypothesis indicates that with the money from the bribes that Alejandro Toledo received, they created offshore companies in Costa Rica. the figure Ecoteva Consulting Groupcon Eva Fernenbugmother of Eliane Karp, as owner.
Ecoteva acquired a property of $3.8 million and a desk worth 882 thousand dollars, both in the Surco district. In addition, through Ecoteva, the mortgages of the former president’s properties in Camacho and Punta Sal.
To justify these payments, Toledo Manrique pointed out that Ecoteva’s money came from a compensation received by his mother-in-law as a victim of the Holocaust of World War II. Moreover, he mentioned having received a loan from his friend Josef Maiman.
The centerpiece of the investigations that followed Alejandro Toledo was precisely Josef Maiman, who have accepted the figure of effective collaboration and confirmed receipt of bribes by Odebrecht and Camargo Correa in their accounts, for the benefit of the former president.
For this alleged money laundering case, the Public Prosecutor’s Office requested 16 years and eight months in prison.
the senior prosecutor alfredo rebazahead of the Office of International Judicial Cooperation and Extraditions of the National Prosecutor’s Office, indicated that the next step, after the approval of his extradition, is for the American authorities to arrest him.
“They will give him the opportunity by notifying him of the decision of the United States, to be extradited, so that he surrenders and obviously we understand that, if he does not surrender, the State will have to carry out its decision. stop,” he said in RPP News.
He explained that there is no fixed term for Toledo Manrique to arrive in the country and he said he hoped that this process no more than eight weeksas the work and coordination between the two states is already being refined.