Peru’s former president Alejandro Toledo was sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison on Monday after being found guilty of corruption.
The Prosecutors accused Toledu of accepting $35 million in bribes from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, which is accused of paying large sums of money in bribes to heads of state and high-ranking officials. located in Latin America.
Toledo has been accused of exchanging bribes for the company’s permission to build a highway in the South American country , the cost of building the road was estimated at $507 million, but Peru was later forced to pay $1 billion and $250 million.
Toledo, who ruled Peru between 2001 and 2006, was arrested from the United States in 2019 and transferred to the government of Peru in 2022.
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