Through its X account, the Public Ministry reported that the United States agreed to the request to extend extradition against the former president. Alejandro Toledo for the Ecoteva case. The request had been approved by the Peruvian Government in April 2021.
LOOK: Former president Alejandro Toledo will not be able to serve his sentence at home
In this case, the Prosecutor’s Office accuses Toledo of having favored the company Odebrecht in the tender for the Interoceanic Highway, in sections 2 and 3, and to the Camargo Correa company, in section 4, obtaining bribes that would have reached him through the Israeli businessman Josef Maiman, a friend of his, who died in October 2021.
The fiscal thesis understands that the money would have been used to create offshore companies in Costa Rica, among which is Ecotevawhose owner was Eva Fernenbug, mother of Toledo’s wife, Eliane Karp.
The first of the accounts, created in 2012 at Scotiabank in the Central American country, recorded an income of 17 million dollars. As a defense, Toledo assured that this money was obtained by his mother-in-law as compensation to Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. However, newspaper reports revealed that the money was from a loan from Ecoteva to Scotiabank, which was finally paid off in just 89 days. At the time, the Financial Intelligence Unit of Peru reported that this is a modality to launder money in tax havens.
Following the line of the case, The money, apparently the product of bribes, would have been camouflaged in the purchase of propertiessuch as one in Las Casuarinas and another in the Omega Building in Surco, valued at 3.8 million dollars and 882 thousand dollars, respectively, as well as the mortgages on the houses in Camacho (217 thousand dollars) and Punta Sal (277 thousand dollars). All paid with money from Ecoteva.
ALSO BY THE INTEROCEANIC
On April 23 of this year, the US Government accepted the same request against Toledo, but on the basis of the investigation into the Interceánica case, sections 2 and 3, in which he is accused of having committed crimes of collusion and money laundering. of assets. Tomorrow, October 21, 2024, the sentence will be handed down.
In the latter case, Jorge Barata, an Odebrecht official, stated in 2014 that he held a meeting with Toledo in which he had committed to awarding that company the contract for the Peru-Brazil Interoceanic Road Corridor Project in exchange for 35 million. of dollars. Josef Maiman, a deceased friend of Toledo, assured judicial authorities that the money came directly to the former president.
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