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US judge rejects Alejandro Toledo’s appeal to suspend his extradition

Alejandro Toledo requested “urgent interim measures” to avoid his arrest and extradition to Peru. | Fountain: AFP

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Federal Court Judge COLUMBIA REGION. decided to reject an appeal by former President Alejandro Toledo asking for “urgent interim measures” to avoid his arrest and extradition to Peru.

magistrate Beryl Howell He criticized the fact that the ex-president, accused of corruption crimes by Peruvian justice, moved his case from California to the US capital.

On March 9, it became known that Alexander Toledo He filed suit against the State Department in a District of Columbia court for wanting to extradite him without what he claimed was due process and for violating the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution.

This amendment establishes that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.

“It is astonishing that the plaintiff would abuse the litigation so much as to complain that he did not actually get enough litigation,” the judge points out to Toledo, who remains in the United States awaiting his extradition to the Andes. countries for corruption offenses related to Odebrecht case.

“This court will not stop the complicated procedures that are already underway in relation to the extradition of the plaintiff,” the judge bluntly stated in the ruling.

legal reverse

Court of the Northern District of California hearing the case extraditionalso denied Alejandro Toledo a similar request to temporarily suspend his repatriation.

The 77-year-old ex-president was arrested in 2019 in California and he spent eight months in prison for risking flight, although he was placed under house arrest in March 2020 due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

He has been charged with Peru for receiving about $34 million from a Brazilian construction company debrechtthrough a network of companies in tax havens, through which he purchased real estate in Peru for a million dollars.

In particular, Toledo was investigated on suspicion of money laundering, conspiracy and influence trading offences, in connection with contracts concluded with debrecht for the construction of an inter-oceanic route between Brazil and Peru.

In September last year, US justice gave the go-ahead for his extradition to Peru, finding sufficient evidence to justify the measure, although the final decision rested with the US Secretary of State. Anthony Blinken.

(EFE)

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