Peru prosecutor says US agrees to extradite former president Alejandro Toledo

Peru’s Attorney General’s Office said Tuesday that it has learned that the US State Department has granted the extradition of former President Alejandro Toledo on charges of collusion and money laundering.

Toledo, who governed between 2001 and 2006, is required by Peruvian justice for allegedly having received 20 million dollars from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht in exchange for help in obtaining public works contracts.

The Peruvian prosecutor’s office said in a message on Twitter that the Office of International Judicial Cooperation and Extraditions of the Public Ministry has been coordinating with national and foreign authorities “for the next execution of his extradition” of the former president.

Peru has faced in recent years a wave of corruption scandals related to the Odebrecht case.

Former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, also under investigation for alleged money laundering, was under house arrest on accusations of bribery. Another former president, Alan García, shot himself in the head to avoid being arrested in 2019.

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