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First Peruvian Ex-President On Trial For Oderbrecht Money Laundering
- By The Financial District
- Feb 22, 2022
- 2 min read
A Peruvian judge started a trial Monday for corruption charges against former President Ollanta Humala and his wife, both accused of money laundering in a scandal involving Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht that has stained the highest political leaders in this South American country over the last two decades.
Photo Insert: Prosecutors seek a 20-year sentence for the former leader and 26 years for his wife Nadine Heredia.
Humala is the first former leader of Peru standing trial in Latin America’s biggest graft scandal, although three other ex-presidents have been involved in the case, the Associated Press (AP) reported. Prosecutors accused Humala and his wife of receiving over $3 million from Odebrecht for his presidential campaigns in 2006 and 2011. Both denied any wrongdoing.
A former Army colonel, Humala lost the 2006 election but won it back five years later.
Prosecutors seek a 20-year sentence for the former leader and 26 years for his wife Nadine Heredia, who’s been accused of having used the money to buy some properties. Odebrecht admitted in a US Justice Department plea agreement to paying $800 million in bribes to high-ranking officials around the region in exchange for lucrative public works contracts.
Former President Alejandro Toledo, in office from 2001 to 2006, has also been accused of illegally receiving money from Odebrecht and who’s facing an extradition process from the US. Ex-leader Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who left office in 2018, is under house arrest for similar charges.
Former leader Alan García, the only president to ever serve two non-consecutive terms from 1985 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2011, shot and killed himself in 2019 as authorities arrived at his home to arrest him in connection with the Odebrecht probe. Former President Alberto Fujimori was also convicted of killing his political enemies while his daughter, Keiko Fujimori, had also been accused of corruption.
