Judge Denies United States Travel Permit to Former President of Peru

The claim has raised the need for a medical badessment in this country, of which Kuczynski had the nationality until the beginning of the election campaign which he led to the presidency in 2016.

Judge Juan Carlos Sánchez ruled that the application does not continue because accepting would be to distort the measure of impediment to the exit of the country issued the next day of March last, when Kuczynski was replaced by the vice-president, Martín Vizcarra, for serious indications of corruption.

month, while the ex-governor is the subject of investigation for possible money laundering and other alleged crimes arising from events such as his former business relations with his Brazilian Odebrecht

Another reason for the refusal is the lack of a legal rule that the ban was issued to ensure the presence of Kuczynski in investigative hearings and lack of strong support for the medical necessity of the trip, said José Pérez, a lawyer who opposes the permit

Lawyer Nakazaki admitted that "it is not necessary to take the trip. he only submitted a certificate from Kuczynski's personal physician who recommends his badessment in the United States and announced that his client would undergo a medical examination. The ex-governor is the subject of an investigation because, when he was minister or prime minister of the neoliberal Alejandro Toledo, he gave advice to Odebrecht, for which he collected several million dollars, which is considered illegal by the government. Office of the Prosecutor

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