Alejandro Toledo Manrique is investigated by the Peruvian justice for allegedly having requested bribes of up to 35 million dollars from the Odebrecht company
A United States judge annulled the arrest warrant that was to be executed this Friday against former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006) to be extradited to his country, where he is accused of corruption for the Odebrecht plot.
The judge of the Court of the Northern District of California, Thomas Hixson, annulled the detention measure after an appeals court upheld Toledo’s defense request to delay extradition for 14 days.
“Since Toledo cannot currently be extradited, the court is quashing his arrest warrant and directing sheriffs not to detain him,” Hixson reported.
He himself had ordered on Wednesday, April 5, that Toledo be interned in a US prison until his extradition. «The Court orders that Toledo be admitted to a suitable jail, where he will remain until he is handed over to the Peruvian authorities (…) The Court orders Toledo to turn himself in to the bailiff on April 7, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. on the 20th floor of 450 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, California,” the text read.
Toledo, 77, was arrested in 2019 in California and spent eight months in prison for risk of flight, although he was placed under house arrest in March 2020, with the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic.
His defense had recently filed an appeal to suspend his extradition. However, in this second attempt, a three-member panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit had initially rejected the petition to block its delivery to the Peruvian authorities.
Alejandro Toledo Manrique is being investigated by the Peruvian justice for allegedly having requested bribes of up to 35 million dollars from the Odebrecht company, in exchange for the construction company being favored in the tender for the work of the Interoceanic highway, which unites that country with Brazil.
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