Peru’s Public Prosecutor’s Office has requested 35 years in prison for former president Alejandro Toledo for the case of section four of the Inter-Oceanic Highway in what is his third indictment in the framework of the Lava Jato corruption case.
Prosecutor Diana Canchihuamán has clarified that Toledo is accused for crimes of collusion and money laundering. Likewise, she has also requested his disqualification and a 1,359-day fine, as reported by the newspaper ‘El Comercio’.
The Special Prosecution Team for the Odebrecht and Lava Jato cases also previously requested 36 months preventive imprisonment for the former Peruvian president, as well as for Avrahan Dan On, Toledo’s former security chief, and the former representative of the Brazilian construction company Camargo y Correa in Peru, Marcos de Moura Wanderley.
The former Peruvian president has already been indicted twice: one for 20 years and 6 months in prison, and the other for 16 years and 8 months in prison for the cases of the Interoceanic Highway South, sections two and three, and for the so-called Ecoteva case.
Lima has requested the extradition of the former Peruvian president to the United States to answer for the charges attributed to him in the framework of these two cases. A California state judge, Thomas Hixson, has seized both Toledo’s and his wife’s diplomatic passports.
The US judicial authorities made this decision in view of the possibility that the former Peruvian president and his wife could travel to another country to evade justice, according to the newspaper ‘La República’.
