The justice of Peru has imposed three years of preventive imprisonment on former president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in the Odebrecht case

A judge from Peru imposed this Friday 3Six months of pre-trial detention against former president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016-2018) while it was under investigation for alleged money laundering related to the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, despite the fact that The former president had been hospitalized.

The decision was made by Judge Jorge Chávez, who felt that there was Evidence that Kuczynski, who is in a Lima clinic, has "committed acts of conversion" of badets, has concealed and given false information and that it has no roots in the countrysince his wife and family live in the United States.

"Third Court of the permanent national preparatory investigation specialized in corruption offenses of officials The President of the Republic, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, sentenced to 36 months of pre-trial detention, was the subject of an investigation for money laundering with an aggravating circumstance of belonging to a criminal organization, "said the judiciary on his Twitter account.

For its part, in the case of Gloria Kisic Wagner and José Luis Bernaola, secretary and driver of the former president, respectively, the magistrate rejected the request for preventive detention for 36 months and ordered that both appear.

The order of Pre-trial detention against Kuczynski was supported by prosecutor José Domingo Pérez, who, after evaluating the medical report of the former head of state, said that the original request for house arrest would not be changed.

Kuczynski, 80, will be informed of the decision of the judge of the Lima clinic where he was hospitalizedafter having undergone cardiac intervention resulting from a hypertensive crisis.

César Nakazaki, Kuczynski's lawyer, said that will appeal the decision of Judge Jorge Chávez Tamariz because it "considers that this is unfair to a person in poor health".

The public prosecutor's office Kuczynski, Kisic and Bernaola for the alleged crime of money laundering in the form of transfer, conversion, concealment and tortious possession of the State.

The former banker on Wall Street has been investigated payments from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht to two companies related to him when Kuczynski was Minister of the Economy under the government of Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006).

Odebrecht disclosed late 2017 that it has paid close to $ 5 million for advisory services to First Capital and Westfield Capital. The former president has so far denied any connection with the Brazilian group.