The former president of Peru, Alejandro Toledo, demanded by the justice of his country since the end of 2017, He went to the San José Court in California this Friday to be extradited to Peru.
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Sources close to Toledo confirmed that the former president has already left his home on his way to the Court; however, The media report that it had to be delivered at 9:00 am (11:00 a.m. Colombian time) and has not yet been submitted.
The former president is charged in his country for having received some 34 million dollars from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht through a network of companies in tax havens through which he acquired million-dollar real estate properties in Peru.
Toledo, one of the many former Peruvian presidents dotted with
Toledo, 77 years old, He was arrested in 2019 in California and spent 8 months in prison due to flight risk, although he was placed under house arrest in March 2020, with the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic.
In Last September, the US Justice gave the green light to his extradition to Peru, having found sufficient evidence to justify this measure, which was endorsed last February by the State Department.
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The Odebrecht case the biggest corruption scandal in Latin America, It also splashed the former Peruvian presidents Alan García (1985-1990 and 2006-2011), Ollanta Humala (2011-2016) and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016-2018), as well as the three-time presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori, daughter and political heiress of former president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000).
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*With information from EFE and EL COMERCIO (PERU)/ GDA
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