The authorities accused Toledo (78 years old) accepted $35 million in bribes from Odebrecht, in exchange for allowing the construction of a highway in the country.
The National High Court of Specialized Criminal Justice in the capital, Lima, issued the ruling after years of legal disputes, including a dispute over the possibility of extraditing Toledo, which ruled… Peru From 2001 to 2006, from the United States.
Odebrecht, which has built some of Latin America’s most important infrastructure projects, admitted to US authorities in 2016 that it had bought government contracts across the region with generous bribes.
The investigations conducted by… US Department of Justice To investigations in several countries, including Mexico, Guatemala and Ecuador.
In Peru, the authorities accused Toledo and three other former presidents of receiving payments from the construction company. Toledo denied the accusations against him.
Toledo will serve his sentence in a prison on the outskirts of Lima, which was specially built to accommodate former presidents of Peru.