• Corruption Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo is arrested in the US

The profession of former president is one of the most dangerous in

Peru

.

This has been confirmed by the Department of State by granting to the Andean country the extradition of

former President Alejandro Toledo

, after a process that has lasted six years.

El Cholo, as he is called in Peru, remains in California under electronic surveillance after spending eight months in prison on charges of corruption that he faces in his country.

The Public Ministry accuses Toledo, 76, of

receiving a bribe of 35 million dollars

from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, which thus benefited from the contract for the work of several sections of the interoceanic highway.

The alleged crimes committed are classified in the Peruvian legal system as collusion and money laundering, which can entail a sentence of 20 years in prison.

In this way, Toledo would join two former presidents in prison,

Alberto Fujimori and Pedro Castillo

, the only tenants of the Barbadillo prison in Lima.

In addition, former president Ollanta Humala faces an uphill

trial for receiving money from Hugo Chávez

and also from Odebrecht itself.

Different accusations, of a lower rank, weigh against Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Martín Vizcarra.

Against Manuel Merino, who was only in power for five days, another constitutional accusation remains.

And Alan García, president for two terms, preferred to shoot himself in the head rather than be jailed.

"The Office for International Judicial Cooperation and Extraditions of the National Prosecutor's Office has been coordinating with national and foreign authorities for the next execution of his extradition (Toledo)," the Public Ministry informed the country last night, despite the fact that the lawyers Defenders of the ex-president can delay the extradition with a habeas corpus in desperation.

Toledo fled to the US in 2017 to avoid the 18-month preventive detention that the judiciary had ruled against him.

The leader of

Perú Posible

triumphed in the 2001 presidential elections, after the electoral fraud provoked by Fujimori a year earlier.

Toledo's term ended in 2006.

"The extradition of Toledo is a great victory for Peruvian justice. Justice takes time, but it comes," said Lucho Durán, president of the Purple Party.

Francisco Sagasti, president who preceded Castillo and the only one in three decades who has not received the onslaught of the country's judges and prosecutors, belongs precisely to this political group.

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