He oral trial against Alejandro Toledoand others investigated, by the case of the Southern Interoceanic Highway sections 2 and 3 The hearing will continue on Monday, August 12. The Second National Collegiate Criminal Court is in charge of the hearing and the accusation against the former president is for the alleged crime of money laundering and collusion against the State.
The last hearing, regarding sections 2 and 3, was made up of Zaida Pérez Escalante, Inés Rojas Contreras and Richarth Quispe Vilcapoma, who read the testimonies of witnesses Marcelo Odebrecht and Jorge Simoes Barata in their absence.
Regarding section 4, on August 8, the Judiciary ordered 30 months of preventive detention against the former president. To date, the former head of state is being held in the Barbadillo prison serving 18 months of this restrictive measure while the investigation against him for the alleged crimes of collusion and money laundering progresses.
The verdict was handed down by Judge Víctor Zúñiga of the Fourth Preparatory Investigation Court this Thursday, August 8, during the virtual hearing of the case. In light of this, Toledo’s defense reported that they will appeal the decision.
Previously, a similar request had been rejected by the Judiciary. Last March, the judge Richard Concepcion Carhuancho He dismissed the measure by explaining that the former president has not been extradited for this incident, but rather for the Interoceanic case sections 2 and 3, a process for which he already has a preventive detention.
Alejandro Toledo during the hearing: “In a few months I will be 80 years old”
Regarding the last one Hearing on the case of section 4 of the Interoceanic HighwayThe former president interrupted the judge’s reading to indicate that he would soon be turning 80 years old and, in this way, persuade the lawyer to hand down a sentence against him. “I do not have the privilege of being a lawyer, but I want you to know that in a few months I will be turning 80 years old,” he said.
Upon hearing this, the judge explained that he could not interrupt the session to say something like that. “I apologize, but I want you to know that the Constitutional Court, after examining all the elements of my state of health, has decided that I should be transferred to a clinic to treat the cancer and heart problems. I ask this on a human level. I am an economist, not a lawyer,” Toledo replied.
However, this is not the only time that Toledo has interrupted an audience. On July 15, The former president of the Republic asked to be transferred to a local clinic because, in his opinion, he said he felt in poor health, despite the fact that the doctor of the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE) reported that the former president had no complications and that he did not have any emergency.
“I’m not well, my lawyer has probably told you everything. I’m asking you to take me to the clinic and you don’t want to. So, how do I comply with you?” Alejandro Toledo said at the hearing scheduled by the Judiciary.
