:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/34AXN2SG6JDNXK6DJM62RFM5OI.jpg "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, Alejandro Toledobecame the center of attention again after learning that the United States Department of State authorized his extradition to answer for having received bribes from the Brazilian company Odebrecht for $35 million in exchange for the awarding of construction work on sections two and three of the interoceanic highway During his tenure.
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.
A request for 35 years in prison weighs on Toledo Manrique for his alleged link to the case Interoceanic Highway. The hypothesis of Public minister also points out that the Brazilian construction company Camargo and Correa would have benefited during the bidding process for section four of the mentioned land highway. The former leader of the missing Possible Peru He is charged with the offenses of aggravated collusion and money laundering.
In this regard, the former president denied having received money from the former representative of Odebrecht in Peru, Jorge Barata, nor the businessman Joseph Maiman “I have never received, and I will prove it as soon as possible, ill-gotten money from Mr. Barata or Maiman,” he said during a dialogue with RPP Noticias in 2018. Moreover, Toledo complained on this occasion that all his habeas corpus They were rejected by the courts.
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.
In addition, he denounced that his lawyers did not have access to the documents of the prosecution, which prevents him from exercising an adequate defense. That’s why he targeted the prosecutor. Hamilton Castro, who carried out the statements of Barata and Maiman that put their legal situation in check. “Why do they want a scapegoat?” he wonders.
Later, Toledo assured “I am sad and outraged, this damn Peruvian justice politicized by Fujimorismo and Apra has prevented me from being with my family because of the death of my sister Margarita”. Finally, he stressed that he was not a fugitive because there was no restraining order against leaving the country.
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.
The crimes that Alejandro Toledo allegedly committed under his government and for which he must answer in court
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”.
“Then Peru will confirm which delegation will be – surely from Interpol and other officials – who will execute precisely this decision. That is, they will go there, execute the delivery and carry out the transfer on the 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 ad hoc prosecutor for the Lava Jato case, Silvana Carrion, He explained that the surrender order completes the extradition process that began four years ago. In interview with RPP News explained that there is no fixed date set for the arrival of Toledo Manrique in Peru. “We estimate that this process will take days, there are no deadlines, only steps, but it won’t take long,” he said.
He also reported that the defense of the former president will file an appeal in the court of the Northern District of California, of Judge Thomas Hixson, in order to request the suspension of the extradition proceedings. However, he considered that the action announced by the defense of Toledo Manrique would be rejected by American justice, as recorded in previous applications.
“We believe that this request will be refused, since the last requests that he presented before the American justice were rejected,” he said.