The former president of Peru is sentenced to 20 years in prison for corruption

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The former president of Peru is sentenced to 20 years in prison for corruption

The former president of Peru, Alejandro Toledo, has been sentenced to 20 years and 6 months in prison for corruption and money laundering. He is accused of taking $35 million in bribes from a Brazilian construction company that was awarded a contract to build a road in southern Peru.

Toledo, 78, was in office between 2001 and 2006. He was arrested five years ago in California, where he had lived and worked for many years, and was extradited to Peru last year.

Brazilian company Odebrecht admitted to paying millions of dollars in bribes to officials across Latin America and the US to secure government contracts.

In 2019, another former Peruvian president, Alan García, shot himself when police arrived at his home to arrest him on bribery charges.

Two other former Peruvian presidents, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Ollanta Humala, are also being investigated in the Odebrecht case


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