This Thursday, August 8th, The Judiciary ordered 30 months of preventive detention against Alejandro Toledo for the alleged crimes of collusion and money laundering, in the case of section 4 of the Southern Interoceanic Highway. The former president, who is already serving 18 months of preventive detention, will remain in confinement in the Barbadillo prison.
In light of this decision by Judge Victor Zuniga Urday of the Fourth National Preparatory Investigation Court, La República contacted the lawyer Andy Carrión to know what the impact would be and the consequences in the case of former President Toledo following the order of the Judiciary.
“We are facing a Similar case to that of former President Pedro Castillowho also has up to three orders of preventive detention. The same thing is happening now with Alejandro Toledo” said Carrión, who explained What would be the reasons why Judge Victor Zuniga made the decision to impose a 30-month preventive detention.
“What the Prosecutor’s Office has argued in requesting this preventive detention, now endorsed by the judge, is that he does not have the necessary roots to be subject to Peruvian justice. The Prosecutor’s Office reminded him that, after being president in Peru, has not had a known job in our country. His wife is in Israel and he has no relatives. who can answer for him as dependents, then all of this would contribute to this preventive detention,” said the lawyer.
Other indications for which this decision was made would have been the seriousness of the crimes Toledo is accused of Manrique, according to lawyer Carrión. In addition, The long process of extradition from the United States demonstrated his lack of proactivity in submitting to Peruvian justice. “The extradition process It also involved legal maneuvers “so that this does not proceed, and what is more, the mere establishment of an extradition procedure implies a coercive treaty on the part of the North American justice system. Therefore, all this type of behavior suggests that the Peruvian justice system will not be subjected to the process,” he pointed out.
In relation to this new order of preventive detention of 30 months filed in parallel with another request for 18 months that he is serving in the Barbadillo prison, for the lawyer at this point in the case it makes The date on which he could leave prison is very uncertain.. “We must remember that the cases he is facing today are in the oral trial stage and He will be held in preventive detention “for 30 months. It is very likely that, before this period is up, a possible conviction will be obtained against him and he could spend the years in prison that are imposed on him,” said Andy Carrión.
Finally, the lawyer clarified whether this decision by Judge Victor Zuniga Urday could affect the other two legal proceedings that the former president also faces Toledo: “Preventive detention is established before the registration of the conviction sentence. In the other two cases that are still in oral trial, andA conviction is likely because the case, I think, is solid. Now, if it affects the other cases, not necessarily because they are parallel cases. If the other cases are sentenced to conviction, It does not mean that other preventive detentions are left without defect. Each process follows its preventive detention,” he said.
