A court in Peru has sentenced former President Alejandro Toledo to 20 years and six months in jail for corruption and money-laundering.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors say he took $35m (\u00a327m) in bribes from a Brazilian construction company which was awarded a contract to build a road in southern Peru.<\/p>\n
Toledo, 78, was in office between 2001 and 2006.<\/p>\n
He was arrested five years ago in California, where he had lived and worked for many years, and extradited to Peru last year.<\/p>\n
The Brazilian company Odebrecht admitted paying millions of dollars in bribes to officials across Latin America and the US to secure government contracts.<\/p>\n
Judge In\u00e9s Rojas said Peruvians had \u201ctrusted\u201d Toledo as their president, \u201cin charge of managing public finances\u201d and responsible for \u201cprotecting and ensuring the correct\u201d use of resources.<\/p>\n
Instead, she was quoted as saying by the Associated Press, he had \u201cdefrauded the state\u201d.<\/p>\n
Toledo has denied the allegations against him and on Monday frequently smirked and at times laughed, especially when the judge was speaking on Monday, the news agency notes.<\/p>\n
In 2019, another\u00a0former Peruvian president, Alan Garc\u00eda, shot himself\u00a0when police arrived at his home to arrest him over bribery allegations involving Odebrecht, which has since changed its name to Novonor.<\/p>\n
Two other former Peruvian presidents, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Ollanta Humala, are also being investigated in the Odebrecht case.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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