Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo returned on Sunday to Peru from the United States and will likely become the third head of state to be imprisoned as the South American country seeks to shake off years of corruption by its rulers.
Toledo, 77, will likely serve his sentence inside a police base on the outskirts of the capital Lima, where former presidents Alberto Fujimori and Pedro Castillo are also held.
Peruvian authorities have accused Toledo of receiving $35 million in bribes from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht in exchange for winning the construction of the Interoceanica Sur highway. The extradition process began in 2018. Toledo had been declared a fugitive in his country the previous year when he traveled to the United States amid corruption investigations against him and former collaborators.
Meanwhile, Castillo is in pre-trial detention while being investigated over allegations of "rebellion" after trying to illegally dissolve Congress in December.
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