And judge of San Francisco (California) revoked this Thursday the bond agreement that the former president Alejandro Toledo obtained in 2020 and which guaranteed his house arrest, confirmed the AFP agency.

Alejandro Toledo will be extradited in the coming days. (Andean)

Alejandro Toledo will be extradited to Peru to answer the Interoceanic case

The US State Department has cleared the returning former president to be prosecuted for bribes he allegedly received from the Brazilian company Odebrecht via the Interoceanic Highway.

The request had been raised by American prosecutors, as well as the presentation before the authorities of the former head of state, whose extradition was approved this week by the American State Department.

Prosecutors argued that under current conditions “his flight risk has increased,” therefore, “Toledo He should no longer be free” in the face of corruption and money laundering charges.

The ad hoc prosecutor in the Lava Jato case, Silvana Carrionreported that the revocation request sought to reverse the house arrest granted to the ex-president in March 2020, after posting a $500,000 bond.

Alejandro Toledo would share a prison in Barbadillo with Pedro Castillo and Alberto Fujimori.

Alejandro Toledo would be sent to Barbadillo prison, along with Pedro Castillo and Alberto Fujimori

If he is extradited from the United States, the former president and husband of Eliane Karp would become the new tenant of this prison, located in Ate-Vitarte.

“The U.S. government will one day present the request to revoke the bond so that the court can once again rule on his detention and that Mr. (Alejandro) Toledo can be handed over to the Peruvian state,” he announced on Wednesday. In RPP.

Carrión clarified that, if the court quickly resolves the revocation of the bond, Toledo will be arrested and placed at the disposal of the american marshals, the United States Police Department and the agency that will execute its delivery to the Peruvian judicial system. “We estimate it will take days, nothing more,” he added.

The legal defense of the former president will present an appeal. Photo: AFP

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomes the extradition order of Alejandro Toledo: “It is a recognition of the fight against impunity”

The Foreign Ministry said the State Department’s decision is also a recognition of the independence of Peru’s judicial system.

Development.

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