Peru’s former president Toledo sentenced 20 years on corruption
In a trial involving the 78-year-old, who led the South American country from 2001 to 2006, the Supreme Court approved the prison sentence requested by the prosecutor.
Toledo, an American-educated economist with a PhD from Stanford University, has pleaded not guilty and asked for leniency, citing cancer and heart problems. .
My preference is to visit a private healthcare facility. I’m asking you to allow me get better or die at home,” he said at a meeting last week.
Toledo appeared collected in court when he was found guilty of fraud and money laundering for taking $35 million from Odebrecht.
Despite taking notes, he chose not to speak during Monday’s hearing and instead smiled when the verdict was announced..
In the case of his request, he was awarded compensation for planning the construction of two parts of the international highway that would connect Peru’s coast to Brazil’S Atlantic coast.
Toledo’s attorney told reporters he will appeal the decision.
The former president was extradited from the United States last year, where he spent several years before being released in federal court in California.
Odebrecht, since renamed Novonor, has agreed to have payed hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes across Latin America to win public works contracts.
The so-called “car wash” has seen many politicians and businessmen behind bars..
Toledo is one of the Peruvian presidents involved in a wide-ranging investigation targeting the group, which admitted to paying millions in taxes to Peruvian officials between 2005 and 2014.
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in 2018, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski was the first Latin American president to resign on charges linked to the Odebrecht case, and it’s not the first time corruption allegations have rocked the Peruvian politics.
When scandal broke out, Alberto Fujimori resigned from his post as president of Peru from 1990 to 2000 and went into self-imposed exile in Japan.
He still remembers the phone call from his resignation, but he was arrested years later in Chile and sent to Peru for trial.
The reason for the release of Fujimori was on humanitarian grounds last December, despite his 25-year sentence for crimes against humanity.
He had been fighting cancer for years and passed away in September at the age of 86.
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