The Constitutional Court considered to declare the request for annulment of preventive detention and arrest warrant against Eliane Karpthe wife of former president Alejandro Toledo.
The defense of the former first lady requested that her case be reviewed in order to cancel the 18 -month preventive detention dictated by the Peruvian justice and the arrest warrant in force in Interpol.
As is known, while Alejandro Toledo is in the Barbadillo prison, his wife is in an exclusive department on the fifth floor of a building in front of the sea of the accommodated Herzliya Pituah neighborhood in Israel.
Karp would be part of the Ecoteva case, for which Peruvian justice asks for 16 years in prison against her, whom a co -author with other defendants.
Ecoteva case
In 2013 the newspaper Correo uncovered the existence of Ecoteva, an off -headquarters company based in Costa Rica that would have been used to launder money and buy real estate for several million dollars.
In February 2013, Toledo declared fourth power that his mother -in -law, Eva Fernenbug, bought the mansion of the casuarinas with her savings, the product of a life pension that she perceived as a survivor of the Nazi holocaust. Three months later, and when the purchase of a expensive offices in 850,000 dollars also also in the name of its mother -in -law (both properties acquired by Ecoteva) is uncovered, Toledo changed version.
The same Sunday told him that, rather, his mother -in -law made the purchase through EcoTava, and not personal, to pay less taxes. Fernenbug was the president of the Ecoteva Board of Directors, but as shareholders were the cleaning employee and the security guard of the study where the company was founded.
The same year it was revealed that the money did not come from the savings of the Holocaust pension, but that they were a loan of the Scotiabak of Costa Rica that was able to cancel in just 89 days. At that time, the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) reported that this is a modality to bleach money in tax havens.
In this regard, the Superior Prosecutor’s Coordinator of the Lava Jato, Rafael Vela, told Peru21 that the evidence was overwhelming against Toledo and that Eliane Karp has been reserved for him because he cannot be condemned in absence, but that he hopes that the extradition request formulated to Israel through the international cooperation system.
