They ordered the arrest of the former president of Peru, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski

Although, because of its international scale, the corruption scandal in Odebrecht can be integrated at the global level, its impact on the interior of Peru is considerable, marking the pulse of politics and, in a way, the economic space of recent years. .

For the month of May, the Brazilian company Odebrecht confessed to the US Department of Justice that it paid about $ 29 million in bribes to Peru, adding an unspecified amount to fund the two political campaigns.

The first main actor involved was former president Ollanta Humala, who, along with his wife Nadine Heredia, had been nominated by Marcelo Odebrecht to receive money to fund his presidential campaign.

After the reports provided, Judge Richard Concepción imposed eighteen months of pre-trial detention on the two people involved. After being accused of money laundering and conspiracy to commit a crime, former President Humala refused to testify twice.

The second relevant case is that of the former President of Peru, Alejandro Toledo, who, before the awakening of this scandal, was a fugitive from Peruvian justice where, although one knows where he stands at United States, no major breakthrough has been recorded. a possible extradition of the country.

Toledo, accused of having received nearly 20 million US dollars in the hands of Odebrecht, granted an exclusive interview to CNN in Spanish. In addition to reappearing "in public" after a few years, he was responsible for threatening the president. Kuczynski of business knowledge that it would have done so illicitly.

Following the presidential spiral that corruption and Odebrecht presented, it is the turn of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, accused of receiving bribes during his tenure as Minister of the Economy from 2004 to 2006, as well as two companies in his name.

The decision of the Third Permanent Pre-Trial Standing Court specialized in the crimes of corruption of the officials of Jorge Luis Chávez Támariz was known, where the order of preventive detention against Kuczynski was issued.

Former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK) described as "ridiculous" the ten-day pre-trial detention order issued against him.

"I will not talk about all this, I spent a lot of time at the Office of the Prosecutor, I explained everything, the officials of Odebrecht have explained it many times," said El Comercio PPK. turn with a restraining order to leave the country.