{"id":32465,"date":"2017-02-10T02:04:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T02:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/court-orders-arrest-of-ex-president-alejandro\/"},"modified":"2017-02-10T02:04:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T02:04:20","slug":"court-orders-arrest-of-ex-president-alejandro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/court-orders-arrest-of-ex-president-alejandro\/","title":{"rendered":"Court orders arrest of ex-president Alejandro Toledo"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Toledo is accused of receiving $20m in bribes from construction company Odebrecht, an allegation he denies.}<\/p>\n

A Peruvian court has issued an international warrant for the arrest of ex-President Alejandro Toledo on suspicions of taking bribes from a Brazilian construction giant at the heart of a region-wide corruption scandal.<\/p>\n

Judge Richard Concepcion late on Thursday (local time) accepted a request by prosecutors that Toledo be jailed as they investigate allegations he received $20m in bribes from Odebrecht in exchange for permission to build a highway connecting Brazil with the Peruvian coast.<\/p>\n

The order calls on Toledo to be placed under “preventative custody” for 18 months, while demanding for his “immediate location, capture and confinement.”<\/p>\n

Toledo, who is believed to be in the French capital, Paris, has denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

“Say when, how and where and in what bank they’ve given me $20m,” Toledo said in an interview with a local radio station over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Multi-national scandal<\/p>\n

Odebrecht, once Latin America’s biggest construction company, has admitted to paying almost $800m in bribes to governments across the region as part of a December plea agreement with the US justice department.<\/p>\n

In Peru, the company acknowledged paying $29m for projects built during the government of Toledo and two successors.<\/p>\n

Toledo, a former World Bank economist, served as Peru’s president from 2001 to 2006.<\/p>\n

In 2010 he sought the presidency anew but failed to make it to the second round of voting.<\/p>\n

The scandal also threatens to implicate Toledo’s successors: Alan Garcia and Ollanta Humala.<\/p>\n

Garcia has denied any wrongdoing in recent weeks as authorities have arrested several accused of taking bribes from Odebrecht during his 2006-2011 government.<\/p>\n

Aside from Peru, several countries in Latin America, including Panama, Mexico, Argentina and Uruguay, are carrying out investigations into bribes paid by Odebrecht.<\/p>\n

In Panama, a former personal adviser to President Juan Carlos Varela on Thursday said on his former boss had accepted campaign donations from Odebrecht.<\/p>\n

\"Toledo<\/figure>\n

Al Jazeera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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