Washington authorized the extradition of the former Head of State (2001-2006) suspected of having perceived tens of millions of dollars of the Brazilian construction group Odebrecht.
MO12345lemonde with AFP
The path to a trial in his country of the former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo clears up after the extradition authorization granted by the United States where the former head of state has resided since the end of his mandate in 2006.
“We have learned that the US State Department has granted the extradition of Alejandro Toledo Manrique, for crimes of influence and money laundering,” said the Peruvian public prosecutor in a message on Twitter . He said he “coordinated” with the “national and foreign” authorities for “the upcoming execution of his extradition”.
The Peruvian public prosecutor believes that the procedure could succeed soon. “No delay has been set, but (…) We hope that this will not exceed eight weeks,” said Alfredo Rebaza, principal prosecutor within the Peruvian prosecution in charge of extraditions, on local radio RPP.
Order in 2019 and residentially under household in California
m. Toledo, 76, chaired Peru from 2001 to 2006, the year he joined the United States at the end of his mandate. He returned to Peru in 2011 and 2016 to go to the presidential election but he was beaten. In 2019, the ex-president was arrested in the United States for corruption acts in Peru. He has since been under house arrest at his home in California and wears an electronic bracelet.
He is suspected of having perceived tens of millions of dollars from the Brazilian construction group Odebrecht, in the heart of a vast scandal in South America, in exchange for obtaining public contracts. When he arrived on Peruvian soil, he must be placed in pre -trial detention as part of this case.
The prosecution requires a sentence of twenty years and six months in prison against Mr. Toledo, who recognized that Oncebrecht paid at least $ 34 million and that he received part of this sum of this sum . However, he claims his innocence, saying that he is a deceased businessman, Josef Maiman, who took care of the transactions, according to the Peruvian media.
The former president is part of a list of former Peruvian presidents prosecuted or sentenced for corruption: Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), Ollanta Humala (2011-2016), Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016-2018), Martin Vizcarra (2018-2020) and Pedro Castillo (2021-2022).
