The former president of Peru, Alejandro Toledo, claimed by the justice of his country since the end of 2017, turned himself in to the Court of San José, California to be extradited to Peru.
The former president arrived at court at the scheduled time, 9:00 a.m. West Coast (4:00 p.m. GMT).
He avoided going through the front door so as not to run into the media.
“They barely slept two and a half hours remembering moments,” a source from the Toledo environment told EFE, referring to the former president and his wife.
The former president 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 million-dollar real estate properties in Peru.
In an interview with EFE on the eve of his court summons, he demanded that the Andean country’s justice not allow his “death in prison.”
His wife, Eliane Karp Toledo, saw him off in the morning at the door of his home in Menlo Park, from which he left in a Rav-4 SUV to court.
The former president was forced to turn himself in to the authorities this Friday morning at the Robert F. Peckham building, headquarters of the Northern District Court of California, in the city of San José (California).