Former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo is sentenced to 20 years in prison for receiving bribes from Odebrecht

The Peruvian justice system sentenced former President Alejandro Toledo on Monday to 20 years and six months in prison for accepting bribes from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht in exchange for awarding him a million-dollar infrastructure project.

The court in charge of the process also sentenced him to three years of disqualification from holding public office, as requested by the prosecution.

Toledo is the second former Peruvian president convicted of corruption, after the recently deceased Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) received three sentences for that crime in 2009, apart from another as the direct perpetrator of 25 murders.

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