US President Alejandro Toledo Arrested in the United States | Chronic

The former president of Peru Alejandro Toledo He was arrested on Tuesday in the United States as part of an extradition request by the authorities of his country under the head of corruption offenses.

The information on the arrest of Toledo (2001-2006), a fugitive from justice since 2017, was anticipated by the Peruvian Prosecutor's Office on his Twitter account.

"The Public Prosecutor, through the International Judicial Cooperation Unit, reports that former President Alejandro Toledo Manrique was arrested this morning for extradition, in the United States," says the report.

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The Peruvian authorities have requested the extradition of the former president, accused of corruption crimes allegedly committed in the context of the scandal generated by the bribes paid by the construction company Odebrecht in different country of Latin America.

On Toledo weighed an 18-month order of preventive detention issued in February 2017.

In March, the Israeli-Peruvian business man Josef Maiman signed an effective collaboration agreement with the prosecution and confirmed that Odebrecht had deposited about $ 35 million in its accounts as bribes for the former president.

In addition, the former representative of Odebrecht in Peru, Jorge Barata, said before the special team Lava Jato that he had paid bribes to Toledo in exchange for a concession.

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Last March, Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006) was arrested and had to spend one night in a prison in San Francisco, California, after being found drunk on public roads.