Former Peruvian first lady Nadine Heredia requested refuge from Brazil, this Wednesday (16).
She arrived in Brasilia on a Brazilian Air Force plane (FAB) after having a diplomatic asylum granted by the Brazilian government.
In a statement, the Ministry of Justice (MJ) reported that Heredia and her child, who is underage, “asked the Federal Police to recognize the condition of refugee, based on the Brazilian refuge law”.
“Received the request for refuge, the Federal Police issued the records that authorize the stay in Brazilian territory until the final decision of the process,” adds the MJ.
Peruvians must wait for the National Refugee Committee (Conare), which is the competent body to decide on requests for refuge.
“In the first two years of the Lula administration, Brazil received 126,787 requests for refuge and recognized 90,904 people as refugees,” the statement concludes.
After receiving asylum, former first lady intends to live in SP
According to lawyer Marco Aurélio de Carvalho, from the group prerogatives that acts in the defense of Nadine, the former first lady and the youngest son, Samin Mallko Ollanta Humala Heredia, intend to live in the city of São Paulo (SP).
The wife of former Peruvian president Ollanta Humala, Nadine requested diplomatic asylum to Brazil on Tuesday (15), a few hours after Peru’s court condemning the couple to 15 years in prison for unlawful money laundering in election campaigns.
THE CNN He found that the defense of Heredia claimed political persecution in the asylum request to Brazil. It was also taken into consideration a cancer she faces.
The Odebrecht Case in Peru
Former President Ollanta Humala and his wife were convicted of accusations of receiving Odebrecht funds, now known as Novoonor, in his successful 2011 election campaign. The court also points out that both received money from the Venezuelan government, which at the time was commanded by Hugo Chavez.
The defense intends to contest the decision at a higher instance.
The case is part of a broader scandal involving several Peruvian leaders.
The Peruvian government said it was “in constant communication on this situation” with the Brazilian government.
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.
This content was originally published in a former peru firm lady requests refugee status to Brazil on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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