Peruvian authorities have accused Alejandro Toledo of receiving tens of millions of {dollars} in return for public works contracts.
Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo has returned to Peru from america to face fees of cash laundering and corruption throughout his mandate.
The 77-year-old, who served as Peru’s president from 2001 to 2006, is needed by Peruvian prosecutors investigating a sprawling scandal involving Brazilian development conglomerate Odebrecht.
He’s accused of getting acquired tens of millions of {dollars} from Odebrecht in return for public works contracts.
Official photographs shared by Peruvian authorities confirmed Toledo arriving at Lima airport on Sunday. Toledo turned himself in on Friday for extradition.
Peruvian authorities have accused Toledo of receiving $35m in bribes from Odebrecht in alternate for the corporate profitable the contract for the Interoceanica Sur freeway.
He denies the allegations of corruption by prosecutors, whose fees embrace cash laundering and collusion and who’ve requested a 20-year jail sentence.
Toledo nonetheless on the airport
Al Jazeera correspondent Mariana Sanchez, reporting from Callao in Peru, stated Toledo remained on the airport and was anticipated to be transported to jail in a while Sunday.
“He is not going to be taken to the prison courthouse, which was the earlier plan within the centre of the capital,” she stated. “As an alternative the highest prosecutor within the nation is right here on the airport with the previous president. They’re most likely speaking with the lawyer as properly.”
She stated that a few of Toledo’s supporters had arrived on the airport in a present of solidarity with the previous president.
Toledo’s extradition course of started in 2018. He had been declared a fugitive in his nation the earlier 12 months when he travelled to the US amid corruption investigations in opposition to him.
Toledo – an economist by occupation, with a doctorate from Stanford College within the US – grew to become the second former Peruvian president to be extradited. His predecessor, President Alberto Fujimori, was extradited from Chile and is serving a 25-year jail sentence for human rights abuses.
In the meantime, former President Pedro Castillo is in pre-trial detention whereas being investigated over allegations of “insurrection” after attempting to illegally dissolve Congress in December.
Former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski can be being investigated within the Odebrecht case and was underneath home arrest, whereas ex-President Alan Garcia shot himself within the head to keep away from arrest in 2019 and died in hospital.