LIMA (Reuters) – Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo was convicted and sentenced to twenty years and 6 months behind bars on Monday for taking bribes from Brazilian development big Odebrecht.
The responsible verdict and two-decade jail sentence marks Peru’s first high-profile conviction associated to Brazil’s Lava Jato corruption scandal.
Toledo, who ruled between 2001 and 2006, acquired $35 million in bribes from Odebrecht, now often called Novonor, in line with authorities, in change for letting the corporate win the development of a street that presently connects the southern coast of Peru with an Amazonian space in western Brazil.
