Alan García, a president harassed by corruption …

Page / 12 in Peru. From Lima He could not stand being arrested for corruption. Former President Alan García committed suicide by being shot in the head when authorities entered his home to arrest him. The arrest warrant was issued as part of judicial investigations related to the corruption system related to the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht. It was a 10-day pre-trial detention, after which the prosecution could have applied for preventive arrest for up to three years while the judicial proceedings against him were in course.

Today, shortly after six in the morning local time, the police entered the home of the former head of state with the order of the court to arrest him. Garcia said that he was going to call his lawyer and went to his room, where he shot himself in the left temple. The ball is out of the right side of the head. Immediately, he was taken to a medical center where he died a few minutes after ten in the morning.

The preliminary arrest against García was ordered for the alleged collection of bribes from Odebrecht during his second government, between 2006 and 2011. The bribes poured out under the rule of thumb. Garcia's administration is under investigation for the construction of a subway line in Lima. of Odebrecht confessed to having paid $ 24 million in bribes and for the construction of a line connecting Brazil to the Peruvian coast, offer obtained after the payment of a pot-de-vin -vin $ 20 million to former president Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006). ) and executed under the administration of García, period during which the price of construction has doubled.

Over the past few days, it was known from documents submitted by Odebrecht as part of a collaboration agreement with Justice, that the secretary of García, when he was president, Luis Nava, who was also his Minister, would have received $ 4.5 million Odebrecht. Nava received this money when he was Secretary to the President at the time, a post in which he had no direct function or power over the works granted to Odebrecht, for which the company paid bribes to obtain bids and overstate the said work. His only power was his closeness to the president. The prosecution speculated that Nava was in fact a former man and was investigating Garcia as the ultimate possible recipient of these bribes. This was not the only judicial investigation against the late former president.

Documents from Odebrecht found a hidden payment from the company in Garcia for $ 100,000 and justified as compensation to a conference of the former president. He is also investigating the alleged illegal financing with $ 200,000 from the construction company to his election campaign.

In addition to the arrest warrant against Garcia, eight other people, including Secretary Nava and a minister of the García government, were also arrested.

When his ban on leaving the country was ordered last November, Garcia had tried to avoid judicial investigations by asking for asylum at the Uruguayan Embbady, ​​which he had been denied . This time, perhaps feeling already dead, he opted for suicide.

In a month, Alan García was 70 years old. In 1985, at the age of 36, he became the youngest president in the country's history after widely winning the elections as a candidate of the Social Democrat Party APRA. His first government was marked by hyperinflation, corruption scandals, rising domestic political violence and human rights violations as part of the fight against armed subversion. Accused of corruption at the end of his term, he escaped from the country. He returned in 2001 after the end of the charges against him and in 2006 he became president for the second time. In his second government, he took a radical turn to the right. This second administration has also been marked by allegations of corruption. In this, there was no change with his first government. With very good contacts in the judicial system, he had the reputation of being untouchable. But his luck had begun to change with the outbreak of the Odebrecht scandal that affected him directly.