The First Criminal Court of Appeals of the Specialized Court of Justice rejected in the second instance the request of the former president Alejandro Toledo to replace the effective prison he received as part of the 20 -year sentence for house arrest.
The ex -president invoked Law No. 32181, promulgated by Congress in December 2024, which stipulates that those over 80, for humanitarian reasons, will face their sentences in house arrest.
In the first instance, that request from the former Chief of State, who was found guilty of receiving millionaire coimas from the Odebrecht company in exchange for granting the southern interoceanic road, was dismissed.
According to the last resolution, which he accessed Peru21The judges indicated that they could not rule because there is an appeal in the process that Toledo filed against their conviction.
“In the case of a rule after the issuance of the sentence that supports the request of the defense, it will be the jurisdictional appeal body that decides in the main file, the modality of execution of the conviction in case the sentence issued against the defendant was confirmed, not being as such, this incidental route is legally authorized to dispose of the execution differently from the one imposed by the Collegiate Court,” reads the document.
Toledo Manrique is waiting for another conviction. Tomorrow the Judiciary will read the sentence for the Ecoteva case, where the former governor faces a request for 16 years in effective jail.
In this process, the former possible Peru’s leader is accused of buying ostentatious real estate with the bribes he received.
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