A Court of Peru concluded that the contributions received by Ollanta Humala for its electoral campaigns, from former president Hugo Chávez, the Brazilian company OAS and the Workers Party (from Brazil), through Odebrecht, were illicit money that was bleached
The former Peruvian president Ollanta Humala was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a court after being found responsible for the crime of aggravated money laundering, for having received illicit contributions from Hugo Chávez and the Brazilian company Odebrecht to finance their 2006 and 2011 electoral campaigns.
Humala’s wife, Nadine Heredia, was also found guilty of aggravated money laundering and received a similar conviction. The defense reported that the decision will appeal.
The Court concluded that the contributions received for its electoral campaigns of 2006 and 2011, from the former Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, of the Brazilian company OAS, and the Workers Party (of Brazil), through the Odebrecht company, were illicit money that was subsequently bleached to be used in the electoral campaigns.
According to the prosecutor Germán Juárez, confirmed with the sentence, for the 2006 campaign, Ollanta Humala received money that Chavez obtained from the Venezuelan treasury illegally. The contributions came to Peru through the Kaysamack company and also in diplomatic suitcases.
In the case of the 2011 campaign, the Court accepted the evidence that confirms that the presidential ex -partner received $ 3 million from the Workers Party, led by the current president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and that this amount was delivered through the Odebrecht company. To this is added the USD 505,000 dollars delivered by the construction company OAS.
The sentence also orders the dissolution of the company all Graph SAC and the imposition of 100 tax units to the Nationalist Party.
Humala is the third Peruvian president convicted in the last 25 years for crimes of corruption. In 2009, Alberto Fujimori – who ruled the country in 1990 to 2000, after giving a coup d’etat and installing an authoritarian regime – was found guilty of corruption and as a mediate author of qualified homicide, serious injuries and aggravated kidnapping.
In October last year, former president Alejandro Toledo was sentenced to 20 years and six months in collusion and money laundering, for the Lava Jato case, linked to the payment of bribes by the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.
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