{"id":44224,"date":"2024-10-21T23:19:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T23:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=44224"},"modified":"2024-10-21T23:19:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T23:19:29","slug":"ex-peru-president-toledo-sentenced-to-20-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2024\/10\/21\/ex-peru-president-toledo-sentenced-to-20-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Peru President Toledo sentenced to 20 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peru\u2019s&nbsp;<strong>former President Alejandro Toledo<\/strong>&nbsp;on Monday was sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison in a case involving Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, which became synonymous with corruption&nbsp;<strong>across Latin America<\/strong>, where it paid millions of dollars in bribes to government officials and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-dominant-color=\"494343\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #494343;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"686\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2024\/10\/IMG_8793-1024x686.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44225 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2024\/10\/IMG_8793-1024x686.avif 1024w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2024\/10\/IMG_8793-300x201.avif 300w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2024\/10\/IMG_8793-768x515.avif 768w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2024\/10\/IMG_8793-750x503.avif 750w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2024\/10\/IMG_8793-1140x764.avif 1140w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2024\/10\/IMG_8793-jpeg.avif 1188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities accused Toledo of accepting $35 million in bribes from Odebrecht in exchange for allowing a highway to be built in the South American country. The National Superior Court of Specialized Criminal Justice in the capital, Lima, imposed the sentence after years of legal wrangling, including a dispute over whether Toledo, who governed Peru from 2001 to 2006,&nbsp;<strong>could be extradited from the United States<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Odebrecht, which built some of Latin America\u2019s most crucial infrastructure projects, admitted to U.S. authorities in 2016 to having bought government contracts throughout the region with generous bribes. The investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice spun probes in several countries, including Mexico, Guatemala and Ecuador.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Peru, authorities accused Toledo and&nbsp;<strong>three other former presidents<\/strong>&nbsp;of receiving payments from the construction giant. Toledo has denied the accusations against him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peru\u2019s&nbsp;former President Alejandro Toledo&nbsp;on Monday was sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison in a case involving Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, which became synonymous with corruption&nbsp;across Latin America, where it paid millions of dollars in bribes to government officials and others. 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