Former Peru President is sentenced to 15 years in prison in an Odebrecht case

A Peruvian court sentenced, on Tuesday (15), former President Ollanta Humala to 15 years in prison for receiving illicit campaign funds from Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, which made him the latest former leader in the country to be arrested.

Humala and his wife were accused of receiving Odebrecht funds, now known as Novoonor, in his successful 2011 election campaign.

Humala’s wife, Nadine Heredia, was also sentenced to 15 years in prison on Tuesday.

The former president, a retired military officer who led the Andean nation from 2011 to 2016, will probably serve his sentence at a police base built especially to house Peru’s prisoners.

Former presidents Alejandro Toledo and Pedro Castillo are currently arrested at the scene, while Alberto Fujimori remained there until his release in 2023.

During his trial, which lasted three years after an investigation began in 2016, Humala classified the accusations as political persecution.

Prosecutors claimed that Humala received illicit funds in his 2011 campaign against Keiko Fujimori, the former president’s other daughter, through Humala’s nationalist party.

His arrest will immediately come into force, even if he resorts to the conviction. The court should continue to read the full sentence in the coming days.

Most recent condemnation of the “Lava Jato”

Old Construction Giant, Odebrecht admitted to having paid bribes to governments of all Latin America to help build its vast empire. The company changed its name to Novoonor in 2020 and is currently in the process of bankruptcy.

Humala is the second former president of Peru to be arrested and the fourth to be implied for his role in the comprehensive case of corruption known as “Lava Jato”.

In 2019, former President Alan Garcia killed himself with a shot when police went to his home to arrest him for alleged corruption related to the company.

The year before, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK) was forced to resign after only two years in office. Meanwhile, Toledo was sentenced to two decades of arrest last year after receiving $ 35 million in bribes in exchange for public works contracts.

Former Odebrecht executives said in a Peruvian court that the company funded almost all presidential candidates in the country for almost 30 years.

This content was originally published in former Peruvian president is sentenced to 15 years in prison in an Odebrecht case on CNN Brazil.

Source: CNN Brasil

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