Toledo is one of four Peruvian presidents allegedly involved in the Odebrecht corruption scandal.
WireImageThe 77-year-old surrendered for extradition in San Jose, California, on Friday morning, and will travel back to Peru, according toToledo allegedly accepted at least $20 million from Odebrecht, which confessed in 2016 to bribing elected officials to win construction contracts across Latin America, and the company had to pay aToledo was first arrested for alleged connection to the Odebrecht scandal in 2019 while he was living near Stanford University, his alma mater, as a visiting...
He sought a stay on his extradition, but a court of appeals denied his latest motion this week and a federal judge ordered him to surrender.Following a 2016 investigation by the U.S. Justice Department and 10 Latin American countries, Odebrecht executives admitted to a major corruption scheme in which it paid major kickbacks to politicians in 12 countries over the past 20 years.
, and Toledo would join two other former leaders in a jail in the nation’s capital built specifically for former presidents. Every elected Peruvian president since 1985 is either in jail, has been in jail or faced arrest.
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