These are the crimes for which Alejandro Toledo will be extradited to Peru after six years

The former President of the Republic, Alejandro Toledo, will be extradited in the coming weeks to Peru. The United States Department of State granted the request of the National Public Prosecutor’s Office, who is investigating him for the alleged crimes of collusion and money laundering for the case Southern Interoceanic.

The former president is followed by two investigations for sections 2 and 3 of the highway Southern Interoceanic. Also, in the case of ‘Ecoteva’. In these cases, the public prosecutor requested respectively 20 years and 6 months of prison as well as 16 years and 8 months of prison.

Toledo is one of four Peruvian presidents to have been imprisoned in the past 20 years. The ex-president fled the country in 2017, since then he has not returned to Peru. For more than five years, extradition procedures have been carried out so that he can be at the disposal of justice.

In 2020, the prosecutor Jose Domingo Perez formalized the accusation against former President Toledo, with whom they ask for 20 years and six months in prison, but also nine years to exercise any public function. Indeed, he is accused of having received money from the Brazilian construction company to deliver the works of the southern interoceanic highway.

These illicit payments became known in 2016, when the former president decided to leave the country with his wife, Eliane Karp, the next year. However, his legal situation has been complicated by revelations from Jorge Barata, a former manager of Odebrecht in Peru.

During questioning, Barata said he had paid the former president $31 million, which was deposited in his friend’s account. Josef Maiman I cash in too. “Hey, Cheap, pay the hell”, was the phrase Toledo would use and he was compromised.

However, he was not the only president involved in these cases. Barata also revealed that he paid Alan García through his secretary Luis Nava to continue the work in this way. In total, he would have spent the sum of three million dollars. However, both former presidents have dismissed the statements and accusations.

This investigation was the first to be opened, precisely after the publication of a report on the former president’s mother-in-law, Eva Fernenburg, who had acquired a property valued at $3.8 million in the exclusive neighborhood of Las Casuarinas. However, in this case, the former first lady Eliane Karp is also charged.

However, an office was also acquired in the Omega building, which cost $882,000, located in the Santiago de Surco neighborhood. These assets were seized by the authorities as part of the money laundering investigations.

For the prosecution, the money received illegally would have been used to acquire these properties and to build offshore companies in Costa Rica; one of them, from Ecoteva Consulting Group, who took care of his mother-in-law.

The former president’s situation became more complicated every year, after Maiman also decided to be an effective collaborator. In 2017, he agreed to make his companies available to receive bribes from the Brazilian company and, in addition, from Camargo Correa. This time, for section 4.

However, Toledo defended himself that his friend Maiman had lent him money so that he could make payment for the acquired properties. While the houses his mother-in-law bought were with the money he received as a victim of the WWII holocaust.

In 2018, the Permanent Chamber of the Supreme Court approved the extradition from Toledo for the aforementioned cases. This is how the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sends a letter to the United States, because the former president had already fled. From that date, he never returned to the country, where citizens once trusted him.