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The Supreme Court of Justice of Peru approved the petition for extradition To united states of former president Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006) and his wife Eliane Karp for an alleged crime of money laundering.
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It’s about the second time Toledo has to face an extradition request after accusations weighing on him with reason for the alleged bribes he would have received from Brazilian construction company Odebrecht and from the company Camargo Correa, in exchange for the contest of several sections of the Interoceanic Highway.
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With the money that Toledo, currently imprisoned in the United States, would have received, constituted supposedly several ‘offshore’ companies in Costa Rica, among them Ecoteva Consulting Group, which would have been used to launder money of illicit origin through the purchase of several properties.
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Toledo always denied the accusations and explained that the nearly 20 million that he would have entered into one of these companies came from compensation from Germany to the victims of the Holocaust, from which his mother-in-law, Eva Fernenbug, benefited, although the investigations ruled out.
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The Prosecutor’s Office denounced that the alleged bribes would have served Toledo to face the payments of several of its mortgages and to the purchase of real estate in Peru, so they ask for him and his wife 16 years and eight months in jail for a crime of money laundering.
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The judge in the extradition case of the former Peruvian president had twice denied his release on bail or bail while the trial lasted.
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Judge Thomas Hixson, of the Northern District of California, dismissed the evidence provided by Toledo’s defense in due course, and it was ratified in his decision to remain in prison when he found risk of leakage If I let him out of jail.
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“I swear that he personally does not own assets does not reassure me if the people around him do possess them,” said Hixson, who He described the former Peruvian president as an “individual with connections, people around him with great assets and a place to run away.”
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Toledo, He was arrested in July 2019 in the United States as part of the extradition request made by the Peruvian authorities to prosecute him for alleged acts of corruption linked to the Brazilian company, the Peruvian Public Ministry reported.
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“As reported, the former president is before the US judicial authorities, as part of the process aimed at achieving his return to the country,” the Prosecutor said in a message on his Twitter account.
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The detention of Toledo is related to the extradition process that has been continuing against him since May 2018, after witnesses of The Odebrecht company confessed to having paid 20 million dollars to the former president to obtain public works tenders.
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In February 2018, the Prosecutor’s Office of Peru announced that it reached an effective collaboration agreement (awarded award) with Peruvian-Israeli businessman Josef Maiman, who acknowledged helping Toledo receive these payments and laundering money in tax havens.
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