A Peruvian court docket has sentenced former president Ollanta Humala and his spouse, Nadine Heredia, to fifteen years in jail for laundering funds acquired from the Brazilian development large Odebrecht to finance Humala’s 2006 and 2011 campaigns.
The judges of the nationwide superior court docket discovered that Humala and Heredia acquired a number of million {dollars} in unlawful contributions for these campaigns from Odebrecht and the federal government of the then Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez.
The decision makes Humala the third former Peruvian president to be imprisoned for corruption within the final 20 years. He joins Alejandro Toledo, sentenced in 2024 to twenty years for Odebrecht-related crimes, and Alberto Fujimori, who acquired a number of convictions for corruption and human rights abuses.
The trial started in 2022, and alongside the 62-year-old former navy officer and his 48-year-old spouse, the court docket convicted eight others. Each Humala and Heredia have been held in pre-trial detention from 2017 to 2018 on the prosecutor’s request to stop their flight.
Odebrecht’s 2016 admission of widespread bribery throughout Latin America preceded the preliminary investigations in opposition to Humala, which began in 2015, a 12 months earlier than the corporate’s revelations.
A lot of the presidents who’ve ruled Peru since 2001 have confronted authorized issues on account of their connections with Odebrecht. Toledo is at the moment imprisoned, whereas the previous president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski is beneath home arrest. Alan García, who served two non-consecutive phrases, died by suicide in 2019 as authorities moved to arrest him in reference to Odebrecht bribes.
Along with former presidents, distinguished figures comparable to the previous presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori and quite a few ex-governors are additionally beneath investigation.
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