U.S. grants extradition of Alejandro Toledo, prosecutors say

The Nation’s Attorney’s Office announced on its social media that it had become aware that the State Department USA secured the extradition of former President Alejandro Toledo Manrique, who is under investigation for conspiracy and money laundering.

In this regard, they indicated that the Department of International Judicial Cooperation and Extraditions of the Prosecutor’s Office is coordinating with national and foreign authorities for the upcoming implementation of their extradition.

About the former president Alexander Toledo he faces two tax charges: 20 years and 6 months in prison and 16 years and 08 months in prison for Southern Interocean Highwaysections 2 and 3, as well as “Ekoteva”.

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penalty Ivan Meini, indicated that the extradition procedure should be immediate by the Peruvian government, because there are no resources to initiate the process. “In the next few days or hours at the government level, they will agree on a way to formulate that Toledo will return to Peru and answer for the big charges that are attributed to him,” he said in Things like meRPP News No.

“Extradition is a procedure that mixes legal and political aspects. Latest decision by the requesting state (Peru) through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in this case the desired state, which is the United States. Once the judge approves it, it is the State Department that ultimately authorizes and authorizes the extradition,” Mainey said.

The decision of the US State Department confirms that there are elements of evidence to remove suspicions of political persecution against Toledo, since it was a prosecution for the evidence found, Ivan Meini assured.

“Apart from the double danger that the Peruvian legal body (Ministry of State) has the support of the United States to conduct this investigation, it is not that the judiciary or the State Ministry cannot act without the support of nature,” he said. Ivan Mainey.

On the other hand, the ex-prosecutor also argued that it was very likely that the State Ministry would order the preventive detention of Alejandro Toledo to continue the investigation.

“It is very likely that the prosecutor’s office, due to the credibility of the evidence and the danger of Toledo’s flight, will require a preliminary detention in his case. The former president of Toledo no longer enjoys any prerogatives because the five-year term has expired. handed over from his government, as established by the constitution. Therefore, he will obey the rules of any ordinary citizen, ”he said in Things as they are.