Peru: Former President Alan García shot himself in the air while they were going to arrest him for corruption and is interned

LIMA.- The former president of

Peru

Alan García was hospitalized after being shot in the head in the middle of
police officer who had arrived home to arrest him for his alleged involvement in the corruption conspiracy

Odebrecht.

The news has been confirmed by the newspaper
El Comercio, who said that the exmandatario "was transferred a few minutes to emergency hospital Casimiro Ulloa from his home in Miraflores after police officers arrived to proceed with his detention on remand ".

A few minutes earlier, the newspaper had confirmed the order of the court to arrest for alleged money laundering crimes, trafficking in influence and collusion in the Odebrecht case, the corruption scandal unleashed in Brazil, but affecting several countries of the country. region

The early versions indicate that the agents arrived early in the morning, after 6 am, at the woman's house and that once there, they heard a gunshot from afar, coming from the room of the # 39; exmandatario. Then they forced the door to enter and found it.

For his part, Garcia's lawyer, Genaro Vélez, said his client was hospitalized for an injury, but did not want to give more details about what had happened. According to the newspaper, the former president is undergoing surgery.

PPK, high pressure

Last night, the former president of Peru

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski

He was transferred to a private clinic in the cell where he was serving 10 days of arrest due to high blood pressure. Kuczynski, 80, left a police station in downtown Lima where he has been arrested since Friday for the Odebrecht case and was taken to the Anglo-American San Isidro District Clinic. During the day, a hearing was scheduled to decide whether or not to increase his detention to 36 months during the investigation.

"He was transferred by police officers because he suffered some sort of decompensation, cardiac alteration, high blood pressure and that he has to be monitored," Peruvian radio spokesperson RPF Gilbert Violeta told reporters. close to Kuczynski.

The exmandatario is the subject of an investigation for money laundering and for alleged interference in the awarding of the works of a millionaire to the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht. On Monday, at a hearing in which the judges denied him a request for liberty, Kuczynski said he had an artificial valve in his heart that he had to check from time to time.

The prosecution claims that Kuczynski allegedly committed "money laundering" while he was minister of the economy and prime minister under the government of former president Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006). The alleged crimes are related to the construction of a highway connecting Brazil to Peru and to irrigation works in the desert areas of the north of the country.

All presidents who govern Peru since 2001 have outstanding accounts with the courts for their links with Odebrecht. The case has touched the political elite of Peru, as well as that of other countries in the region, after the construction company admitted in 2016 that she had paid for Bribes to get lucrative contracts in almost all Latin America.

AP and Telam Agencies