Eliane Karp would consider going to Belgium to avoid extradition. (Andean)

After the national prosecutor’s office of Peru to inform that the Department of State of the United States of America has granted the extradition of the former Peruvian President Alexandre Toledo Manrique, for collusion and money laundering offences. The ad hoc prosecutor for the Lava Jato case, Silvana Carrión, said on Wednesday that the American justice was also evaluating the extradition request of the former first lady, Eliane Karpfor the Ecoteva affair, so that he can respond to justice.

“She has an ongoing investigation regarding the Ecoteva case, there is also an extradition request regarding Ms. Eliane Karp for this process,” Carrión told TV Peru.

Also, Eliane Karp, unlike her husband, she is not prosecuted in the case of the Interoceanic projectunder which the extradition of the former president was approved Toledo.

He added that the extradition of the woman from Toledo has already been presented and that the United States Department of Justice is in charge of this evaluation.

“This extradition booklet has already been presented to the US government. We know that the Department of Justice is in the process of assessing this extradition request and presenting it to the judiciary. This is the state in which Ms. Eliane Karp’s extradition book is, ”he said.

Toledo and Karp are under investigation for the Ecoteva case.
Toledo and Karp are under investigation for the Ecoteva case.

Instead, both Toledo and Karp, yes they are under investigation for the case Ecotevain which the former first lady’s mother allegedly purchased real estate worth five million dollars from the millionaires Odebrecht fines.

The Ecoteva affair began in 2013, the year that revealed luxury real estate purchases under the name of Eva FernenbugEliane Karp’s mother. Ecoteva is a company founded in Costa Rica by the mother-in-law of Toledo, at the request of the former president.

For accounts off the coast discovered in Costa Rica, the prosecutor’s office requested that Toledo and Eliane Karp pity of 16 years and 8 months jail for money laundering.

Ecoteva, the case that could put Eliane Karp, wife of Alejandro Toledo, in prison.  Photo: Andina/Composition GlobeLiveMedia
Ecoteva, the case that could put Eliane Karp, wife of Alejandro Toledo, in prison. Photo: Andina/Composition GlobeLiveMedia

Alfredo Rebaza, head of the extradition office of the national prosecutor’s office, also specified this Friday that in the case for which the extradition of Alejandro Toledo was granted, his wife Eliane Karp is not prosecuted.

“She is being prosecuted for the Ecoteva case, for which her extradition has also been requested, but this is being handled by parallel lines,” he explained in statements to Canal N.

Meanwhile, the lead prosecutor Raphael Vela He estimated that, based on the first decision on Toledo, “the extradition process of the Ecotevano case will last as long as that of the Interocánica”. It should be mentioned that this case has been going on for almost two years.

However, Vela warned of the risk of Karp traveling to Belgium or Israel (of which she is a national), countries from which she could not be extradited. Given this, he indicated that American justice could require measures to ensure that Toledo’s wife does not leave its territory.

“We are optimistic that, in the case of Ms. Eliane Karp, the extradition process ends in favor of the Peruvian state,” said the senior prosecutor at Trade.

On the other hand, last Wednesday, we learned that Karpfiled a passport application in a California court, in UNITED STATES (UNITED STATES.). She had handed over the document a few years ago as proof of her collaboration with the prosecution in their extradition process.

according to the newspaper Peru 21, The respondent maintains in her exhortation that her mother is “dying” at BelgiumTherefore, you must go to this country.

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