Peru: Former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski hospitalized for a spike in blood pressure

The former Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski was admitted Wednesday in the intensive care unit of a clinic in Lima, suffering from a cardiac alteration that led him in the night of Tuesday to his hospitalization.

The state of health of Kuczynski, who meets a detention order for 10 days, was first communicated by MP Gilbert Violeta, then by the local press, adding that he "atrial fibrillation".

According to the detail TV channel N, this disease involves a Irregular heart rate, so at noon a medical evaluation will be done to determine your health condition.

It was added that Kuczynski's 80-year-old heart disease was caused by the emotion that earned him the visit of his brother Miguel in the prefecture of Lima, where he meets the provisional detention ordered by justice.

Kuczynski, prevented from leaving the country since March 2018, Last year he asked the judiciary for permission to travel to the United States to cure his heart disease in a specialized clinic., but this request was not accepted, the treatment in Lima was therefore continued.

A court dismissed his appeal Monday after being arrested on a preliminary basis and in the next few days may enter pre-trial detention at the request of the Prosecutor.

First Criminal Chamber of the Permanent National Appeals Specialized in Corruption Crimes of Public Servants He dismissed the appeal filed by the former president, but agreed to release his secretary, Gloria Kisic, and his driver, José Luis Bernaola., who had been arrested with him.

All three are accused of allegedly having money laundering possible illegal origin of the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht through consulting firms on behalf of Westfield Capital, the Kuczynski company registered in the United States, while he was minister of the former president Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006).

The prosecutor's office suspects that the consultations, which amounted to $ 782,000 between 2004 and 2007, would be seemingly legal payments for Kuczynski's favors in the awarding of public works contracts whose offers were obtained by means of bribes.

Kuczynski is specifically studied by the auctions of the Olmos Irrigation Project and the Southern Interoceanic Highway, for which Toledo would have received $ 20 million in bribes.

In his plea to ask the court to release him, Kuczynski repeated his innocenceHe defended his willingness to cooperate with investigations and accused the Office of the Prosecutor of having copied the arguments of the report of the parliamentary commission Lava Jato, led by the Fujimori opposition.

"My reputation for working for 60 years has been destroyed and I am really ashamed to have been president of a country where we have reached this level. It really makes me cry in my heart to see this at my age, "Kuczynski, 80, told magistrates.

Odebrecht paid bribes in a dozen countries in Latin AmericaIn Peru, they also made irregular donations to the election campaigns of the main candidates, as was likely the case of Keiko Fujimori, who has been in pre-trial detention since November.

The revelation of the ties between Odebrecht and Kuczynski caused his departure from the presidential chair in March 2018 under pressure from Fujimori., who also denounced an alleged purchase of parliamentary votes in an attempt to avoid his destitution.