Pre-Trial Prison of Kuczynski, the Peruvian President – ElSol.com.ar – Diario de Mendoza, Argentina

A judge in Peru said Friday that former president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski would serve a 36-month remand sentence, while he was under investigation for money laundering. alleged money linked to the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.

The decision was made by Judge Jorge Chávez, who felt that it was proved that Kuczynski, admitted to a Lima clinic for heart problems, could escape because "He has committed acts of conversion "of badets, hidden and given false information, and has no roots in the country, like his wife and familyreside in the United States, reported Peruvian digital media Trome.

Yesterday, the prosecutor José Domingo Pérez reiterated the request for preventive detention after badessing the medical report of the medical examiner who had examined the former president and denied the possibility of applying for house arrest.

However, the former president's lawyer, César Nakazaki, requested that the said measure be declared unfounded or that, in the worst case, the house arrest of his client be ordered, taking into account the his 80 years.

The public prosecutor accuses Kuczynsy, his secretary Gloria Kisic Wagner and his driver José Luis Bernaola of committing the crime of money laundering under the Alejandro Toledo government, while Kuczynski was president of the Council of Ministers.

The former head of state was hospitalized after the judiciary upheld the 10-day preliminary arrest warrant against him in the second instance.