Lima.- Lawyer Paolo Aldea, defender of the former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006)sent a letter this Friday to the United States embassy in Peru to denounce that, according to his position, the former president is “a victim of a judicial kidnapping.”
Aldea declared to the RPP radio station that the letter was addressed to the US ambassador, Lisa Dougherty Kenna, to inform her that Peru has failed to comply with the commitment to “due process and respect for judicial guarantees” of the former ruler, who was extradited from the United States in April of last year.
“We have a letter to the ambassador so that, through the embassy, she can communicate to the relevant instances of the US government the non-compliance with the international commitment and the situation of arbitrariness against Toledo,” he said.
According to the lawyer, this letter “will have an effect” on the decision made by the US justice system on a second extradition request that Peru has presented so that Toledo can be prosecuted for the so-called ‘Ecoteva case’.
“This is going to set a precedent,” he said before emphasizing that Toledo has suffered “arbitrariness” and is “a victim of judicial kidnapping,” after a court rejected his request to be released on the grounds that he has already complied the 18 months of preventive detention ordered against him, if the time he was detained in the United States is added.
The First National Preparatory Investigation Court of the National Superior Court of Specialized Criminal Justice determined this Thursday that “the calculation of the period of preventive detention will be carried out from the moment of arrival” from Toledo to Peru”, so the next October 22.
Last Wednesday marked one year since the US State Department granted Toledo’s extradition to be tried for alleged corruption, and two months later he arrived in Peru, where he is serving preventive detention.
On March 25, the preliminary hearing to control the indictment for the alleged delivery of $34 million in bribes to the Brazilian company Odebrecht in the tender for Section 4 of the South Interoceanic Highway will be held.
The Prosecutor’s Office in charge of the case accuses the former governor of having committed the crimes of collusion and money laundering and asks that he be sentenced to 35 years in prison.
Toledo also has another process open for alleged money laundering in the Ecoteva case, a company created in Costa Rica that was supposedly used to buy real estate in Lima with the money provided by Odebrecht.
In this investigation, the Prosecutor’s Office has requested that he be sentenced to 16 years in prison, and his wife, Eliane Karp, to 8 years, who left for Israel when the former ruler was extradited and is also requested by the Peruvian Justice.
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2024-02-24 22:14:05
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