Former Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski will be operated on urgently for heart problems

Former Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, 80, will undergo an emergency surgery Saturday afternoon at the Lima clinic where He has been hospitalized since last week for heart disease that can cause sudden death.

"His condition is not stable and he needs an emergency operation," he said. N channel Alex Kuczynski, daughter of the former president, at the entrance of the Anglo-American clinic, located in the district of Miraflores in Lima.

The former president, who ruled Peru from 2016 to 2018, has been in intensive care since Wednesday, April 17. He was unzipped when he was incarcerated in a prison for the Odebrecht case, in which he is prosecuted for money laundering.

According to the report of the clinic, Kuczynski would suffer from "unstable ventricular tachycardia (sporadic) with risk of decompensation in case of stress, with a potential risk of ventricular fibrillation and sudden death".

One of these cases of decompensation occurred when Kuczynski learned that former president Alan García (2006-2011) had committed suicide before being arrested for the same Odebrecht's case, which had led him to the intensive care unit, according to his brother Miguel. .

The medical report changed the opinion of the tax team in charge of the file, which asked that Kuczynski be placed under house arrest instead of the 36 months of pre-trial detention that were initially dictated to him.

The delicate state of Kuczynski prevented the execution of the order of entry into prison but not that it was in custody in the medical center where he receives care.

Kuczynski is accused of irregularities in the Odebrecht case when he was minister in the government of former president Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006).

The prosecutor's office is investigating whether Kuczynski has concealed illegal payments from Odebrecht through his US-based Westfield Capital consultancy firm., with which he invoiced $ 782,000 between 2004 and 2007 to the Brazilian construction company for consulting services on public works projects that were subsequently awarded to the company.

In addition to the Kuczynski affair, the Odebrecht case is also engaged against former presidents Toledo and Ollanta Humala (2011-2016), and until last week also. Alan Garcia, who committed suicide on Wednesday, April 17, not to go to jail.

Odebrecht's bribes, which took place in a dozen Latin American countries, were accompanied in Peru by irregular donations to the electoral campaigns of the main presidential candidates, as was the case with Opposition leader Keiko Fujimori, in office since last November.