They arrested Kuczynski for alleged links with Odebrecht | Chronic

The former Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016-18) was captured Wednesday by the National Police, at his home in Lima, for a 10-day pre-trial detention order following an investigation into alleged links with the Brazilian company Odebrecht.

In the resolution, the judge Jorge Luis Chávez noted that the public prosecutor's office "previous" the "Money laundering in which the former president was a victim of" his intervention in alleged acts of corruption " two projects awarded to Odebrecht.

The projects referred to are the Interoceanic Highway, in Sections 2 and 3, and the Olmos Irrigation and Hydropower Project, awarded by the Government of Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006), Fugitive of Justice for a million-dollar bribe handed over by Odebrecht asks for arrest.

Kuczynski, who considered that his detention was a "an arbitrary", was Minister of Economy and Prime Minister of the Government of Toledo.

After 80 years, Kuczynski left the garage from his home in a car driven by National Police agents who were going to Legal Medicine headquarters, where he was later to be transferred to the headquarters of the police headquarters. in Lima

The arrest of Kuczynski was authorized by Judge Chávez at the request of the prosecutor José Domingo Pérez, who had already asked and managed to imprison opposition leader Keiko Fujimori a few months ago.

The former president could be arrested for up to 10 days, a period that could be reduced, if not revoked, if Kuczynski's lawyers appealed the judge's decision, as they had planned.

Meanwhile, he will remain at the Lima police headquarters, waiting for the prosecutor to define whether he should be released or whether he asks to be remanded, as was Keiko Fujimori's case, temporarily imprisoned in November. three years.

During this preliminary period, the prosecutor and the national police will search the various houses and properties of Kuczynski in Lima, as well as those of his secretary and his driver, for whom a warrant for arrest has also been issued.

The objective of the raids is "Detention and seizure of items related to the aforementioned investigation (detachable bank accounts, electronic filings, documents for the sale of movable property and public documents, among other objects of crime)", noted the court's decision, partially reproduced by the news agency EFE.

"It's an arbitrary, I cooperated absolutely with all investigations and punctually attended all the convocations of the judicial authorities, I never fled justice"Kuczkysnki said on his Twitter account.

"It's a very difficult time for me but I will face it with the integrity of one who only wants to have a better country", he added.

Kuczynski resigned from the Peruvian presidency in March 2018 so as not to be fired while he was preparing to start the second impeachment trial against him in three months, due to his links with Odebrecht during his tenure with the Government of Toledo and its functions. get out of this, through their financial consulting companies.

The Congress, dominated by Fujimorismo, has submitted two dismissal applications against Kuczynski, one of whom was defeated by the grace granted to the former head of state Alberto Fujimori, sentenced to 25 years in prison, but revealed an alleged purchase of legislators' votes by the government.