Former Peruvian President Toledo extradited from US
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The United States has extradited former President Alejandro Toledo to Peru, who is accused in his homeland of taking $35 million in bribes from a Brazilian construction company. writes Reuters.
How clarifies RPP, Toledo flew from San Francisco International Airport to Los Angeles, where he stayed for less than 4 hours before flying to Peru’s capital, Lima, to be handed over to authorities. According to the publication, the police are taking the former president to the national supreme court.
Toledo, 77, could become the third head of state to be imprisoned, Reuters writes. According to the agency, the ex-president will serve his sentence at a police base on the outskirts of the capital Lima, which also holds former heads of state Alberto Fujimori and Pedro Castillo.
Toledo ruled Peru from 2001 to 2006. The authorities of the republic accused him of taking $35 million in bribes from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht in exchange for winning the competition to select a contractor for the construction of the Interoceanica Sur highway, Reuters specifies. The Peruvian authorities asked the United States to extradite Toledo back in early 2017, and in February 2018, Peru formally asked the United States to extradite the ex-president.
Toledo was declared a fugitive last year when he fled to the US amid corruption investigations. In Peru, Toledo faces up to 20 years in prison.
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