Bribery: Ex-Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo bags 20 years jail term …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>>
Alejandro Toledo, Peruvian former president has been sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison.
Toledo was sentenced on Monday for taking $35m bribes from a Brazilian construction company, Odebrecht, in exchange for letting it win a contract to build the road that connects Peru to western Brazil.
DAILY POST reports that the 78-year-old who governed the Andean nation between 2001 and 2006, was arrested in California in 2019, and extradited to Peru in 2023.
Toledo denied the money laundering and collusion charges against him during the year long trial.
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