United States: Prosecutors call for the detention of former Peruvian President Toledo

US prosecutors have asked a Californian judge to revoke the bail of former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006) and to prepare his extradition to Peru, where he is accused of corruption.

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The petition has been filed in a court in San Francisco, Calif., and a hearing is scheduled for March 9.

Fraudulent transactions

Alejandro Toledo, 76, has resided in the United States since his term as president ended.

He returned to Peru in 2011 and 2016 to run for president but was defeated.

In 2019, the ex-president was arrested in the United States for corruption in Peru.

He has since been under house arrest at his California home and wears an electronic bracelet.

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He is suspected of having received tens of millions of dollars from the Brazilian construction group Odebrecht, at the heart of a vast scandal in South America, in exchange for obtaining public contracts.

Upon his arrival on Peruvian soil, he must be remanded in custody in connection with this case.

The prosecution is asking for a 20-year and 6-month prison sentence against Alejandro Toledo, who admitted that Odebrecht paid at least 34 million dollars and that he received part of this sum.

However, he claims his innocence, saying that it was a businessman now deceased, Josef Maiman, who took care of the transactions, according to Peruvian media.

The former president is part of a list of former Peruvian heads of state prosecuted or convicted of corruption: Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), Ollanta Humala (2011-2016), Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016-2018), Martin Vizcarra (2018-2020) and Pedro Castillo (2021-2022).