Lima (EFE).- The Public Ministry of Peru requested this Friday the Judiciary to expropriate and declare the State as the owner of the real estate of former President Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006), whose extradition has the approval of the United States to judge him for the Odebrecht case.
“The Asset Forfeiture Prosecutor (expropriation) filed a lawsuit before the Judiciary to declare the State as the owner of the real estate of former President Alejandro Toledo and his family environment,” the Public Ministry reported in a brief message on Twitter.
From California, where he has lived for the last few years, Toledo is waiting for the resolution of an appeal that he filed against the extradition approved on February 23 by the United States Department of State to answer before the Peruvian Justice for alleged crimes of corruption. .
The ex-president, who will remain free on bail until said appeal is resolved, is charged in his country for having received some 34 million dollars from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, through a network of companies in tax havens through which he acquired millionaires real estate in Peru.
Specifically, Toledo has an investigation for the alleged commission of the crimes of money laundering, collusion and influence peddling, in relation to contracts awarded to Odebrecht for the construction of the Interoceanic Route between Brazil and Peru.
Toledo extradition process
The former president was arrested in 2019 in California and spent 8 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.
Last September, the US Justice gave the green light for his extradition to Peru, having found sufficient evidence to justify this measure, although the final decision was left in the hands of the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken.
In the Andean country, the Odebrecht case, the largest corruption scandal in Latin America, also affected former presidents Alan García (1985-1990 and 2006-2011), Ollanta Humala (2011-2016) and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016-2018). , as well as the three-time presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori, daughter and political heir of former president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000).