Alejandro Toledo: Investigation of the former president, who will soon be extradited to Peru

Alejandro Toledo will return to Peru after almost six long years. Former leader Mr. Peru Possibly and the former President of the Republic, issued two arrest warrants in 2001 and 2006 for allegedly accepting a bribe of up to US$31 million from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht and for alleged money laundering in a case known as Ecoteva.

All investigations began in 2013 precisely because of Ekoteva. A journalistic report revealed that Eva Fernenburg, the mother-in-law of the ex-president, bought a $3.8 million property in the Las Casuarinas urbanization, and later that company purchased an office in the $882,000 Omega Building, both in the Grove area.

Company Ecoteva also canceled the mortgage on the house Alexander Toledo in the Camacho urbanization for $217,000 and in Punta Sal for $277,000. Alejandro Toledo then assured that the money belonged to his mother-in-law because she was compensated as a victim of the Holocaust during World War II.

Toledo also claimed that he received a loan from his friend Joseph Maiman for these payments. That is why the public ministry opened a process against all those involved.

In 2017, Toledo traveled to the United States after failing his presidential candidacy a year earlier and he has not returned to Peru since. In December 2016, it emerged that in the Lava Jato case, Jorge Barata and Marcelo Odebrecht began to confess to receiving millions of dollars in bribes from the Brazilian company Odebrecht to win tenders for work in our country.

Both businessmen noted that Alexander Toledo received payments during his tenure as president. Faced with this situation, the prosecutor accused him of patronizing the company debrecht in bidding for sections 2 and 3 of the Inter-Ocean Highway, and for Camargo Correa on section 4 of the same road in exchange for bribes to be delivered through Israeli businessman Josef Maiman.

According to prosecutors, the money was to be used to set up offshore companies in Costa Rica, including the creation of Ecoteva, a consulting group owned by Elian Karp’s mother, Eva Fernenbug.

In 2017, Judge Richard Concepción Caruancho ordered Toledo’s preventive detention for 18 months at the request of the state ministry in the Ekoteva case. His capture was also given away nationally and internationally, and despite the fact that his presence in the United States was known, he could not be detained until the Peruvian government filed an extradition case.

arrest of Toledo

Alejandro Toledo was arrested on the morning of July 16, 2019 in the United States on an “extradition warrant”, according to the then prosecutor’s office.

He was transferred to prison pending his first hearing, which was to determine whether he would be subject to an extradition process on arrest or bail. Judge Thomas S. Hickson then denied this exemption to Toledo and ordered him to face the extradition process behind bars.

On September 12, 2019, the judge again denied Toledo Manrique’s motion, whose defense posted bail of one million dollars.

Two days later, his defense demanded that the ex-president be sent to the hospital after releasing a medical report from the Santa Rita prison, where he was held under strict conditions, indicating a deterioration in his mental health.

In a special hearing in 2020 by telephone, the same Judge Thomas Hickson ordered Toledo’s release and immediate placement in his home in the San Francisco Bay Area (where a mandatory detention order is in place) using a GPS tracking system.

In 2022, the prosecutor’s office requested 36 months of pre-trial detention, this time as part of a criminal trial that is ongoing in the case of a tender for the fourth section of the Inter-Ocean Highway.

Approved extradition

After years of litigation and hearings, the National Attorney’s Office announced on its social media on Tuesday, February 21, 2023, 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.

Timeline of Alejandro Toledo

– January 21, 2017
Barata confesses to bribing Toledo

– February 3, 2017
Raid house in Toledo

– February 4, 2017
Toledo denies giving bribes

– February 8, 2017
Asking for 18 months of pre-trial detention

– February 9, 10 and 11, 2017
Judge Richard Concepción Caruancho demands his capture; Reward of 100 thousand soles for his capture; Congress cancels exemptions for Toledo

– February 14, 2017
Appeal against pre-trial detention

– September 2, 2017
Maiman confirms Odebrecht deposits

– December 8, 2017
Prosecutor seeks extradition of Toledo

– March 13, 2018
The Supreme Court approved the extradition

– March 21, 2018
Council of Ministers approves extradition

– May 25, 2018
The Foreign Ministry has sent an extradition request to the United States

– February 3, 2019
Peru hires law firm

– March 29, 2019
Maiman signs an agreement with the prosecutor’s office

– April 24, 2019
Barata says he gave a bribe of 35 million; Toledo demands payment

– July 16, 2019
Arrested in the USA

– September 12, 2019
They refuse bail for the second time

– October 10 and 11, 2019
Judge orders prison conditions to be improved after request for mental health disorder; transfer to a correctional institution with improved conditions.

– December 11, 2019
The Peruvian judiciary approved the extradition of Elian Carp and Alejandro Toledo in the Ekoteva case.

– December 30, 2019
PJ approved the agreement of Josef Maiman as an effective employee

– March 18 and 19, 2020
Toledo asks for freedom due to COVID-19; They order release and bail of one million dollars: 500,000 in cash and 500,000 in friends’ real estate.

– March 20, 2020
Toledo regains his freedom after bail is posted.

– August 10, 2021
The defense asks to refuse extradition.

– December 24, 2021
They seize real estate and a bank account for 6.5 million US dollars.

– April 25, 2022
A California court judge refuses to habeas corpus Alejandro Toledo, who tried to avoid extradition.

– August 31, 2022
The United States will return to Peru US$686,000 seized from the former President of Toledo.

– October 26, 2022
San Francisco Court of Appeals overturns precautionary measure to stay Toledo’s extradition