Alejandro Toledo will face justice in Peru

Lima, February 21 (EFE).– The Peruvian prosecutor’s office hopes that the former Peruvian president will Alexander Toledo (2001-2006) to be “in a few days” in the Andean country, after confirming that the United States Department of State has approved his extradition for corruption crimes.

“It could take a few days, I don’t know how many, but let’s understand that the decision of the United States at both stages, judicial and executive, has approved the extradition of the Peruvian state,” he said. published on Channel N on head of the Extradition Office of the Ministry of Public Affairs, Alfredo Rebaza.

The representative of the Prosecutor’s Office confirmed again that he can “confirm that the United States Department of State has informed the Peruvian authorities in a diplomatic note that extradition is granted.”

Now, he said, “the phase of coordination” between the prosecutor’s office, the Ministries of Foreign and Internal Affairs and Interpolwith the United States authorities.

“Eye, We currently do not have a set deadline.it will be the product of agreements and meetings that will be held on how to carry out (the process) in the coming days,” he said.

Although he considered it “difficult at this time to give an exact date” on the day Toledo was surrendered to Peru, he noted that “The important thing is that the decision was made.”

The Prosecutor’s Office of Peru reported on Twitter on Tuesday that the United States Department of State had approved Peru’s extradition of Toledo for crimes of collusion and money laundering.

The State Ministry added that Office for International Judicial Cooperation and Extradition of the State Prosecutor’s Office “He coordinated with national and foreign authorities regarding the upcoming extradition.”

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It’s Toledo accused in his country of receiving tens of millions of dollars in bribes from the Brazilian company Odebrecht in exchange for favoring her job in Peru, while he was still president.

Specifically, the former president is being investigated for allegedly committing the crimes of money laundering, collusion and influence peddling in connection with contracts awarded to Odebrecht for the construction Interoceanic route between Brazil and Peru.

Former president he was arrested in 2019 in Californiawhere he has resided for the past few years, and spent 8 months in prison as a flight risk, although he was able to be released from prison and placed under house arrest in March 2020, with the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic.

Last September, the United States judiciary gave the green light for his extradition to Peru.after finding enough evidence to justify this measure, although the final decision was left in the hands of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.