Alejandro Toledo is one among 5 former Peruvian presidents jailed lately as political turbulence continues.
Printed On 4 Sep 2025
A Peruvian courtroom has sentenced former President Alejandro Toledo to 13 years and 4 months in jail for cash laundering, his second conviction in reference to widespread corruption.
Toledo is one among 5 ex-presidents imprisoned lately in Peru, together with ex-President Martin Vizcarra, who was launched by a courtroom on Wednesday as he awaits trial for allegedly taking bribes greater than a decade in the past.
Toledo, 79, who was president from 2001 to 2006, was discovered responsible of utilizing bribe cash from the Brazilian building big Odebrecht, now often known as Novonor, to amass high-value actual property.
In keeping with prosecutors, Toledo and his spouse used $5.1m to purchase a home and an workplace in an upscale Lima neighbourhood and to repay mortgages on two different properties. The funds have been funnelled via an offshore firm in Costa Rica that Toledo created to launder the illicit money, the prosecution stated.
Toledo’s conviction on Wednesday follows a sentence of 20 years and 6 months handed down in October 2024, when he was discovered responsible of accepting as much as $35m in bribes from Odebrecht in alternate for awarding the corporate profitable public works contracts.
Throughout his yearlong trial, Toledo persistently denied fees of cash laundering and collusion levelled in opposition to him by prosecutors.
His two sentences can be served concurrently.
Toledo, an economist with levels from Stanford College and the College of San Francisco, is serving his sentence at a jail on a Lima police base.
Two different ex-presidents, Ollanta Humala and Pedro Castillo, are additionally at present being held within the particular facility constructed for former leaders of the nation.
Former President Martin Vizcarra was additionally being held on the identical facility; nevertheless, a prime Peruvian courtroom on Wednesday ordered his launch whereas he awaits trial for allegedly taking bribes whereas he was governor of the Moquegua area 11 years in the past.
Vizcarra was jailed final month forward of his trial, wherein the prosecution has requested that he obtain a 15-year sentence. He has denied the costs in opposition to him, stating that they’re a type of political persecution.
He had deliberate to run for president once more in 2026.
The Odebrecht corruption instances, a part of the broader “Automobile Wash” scandal, have implicated governments throughout Latin America and almost all of Peru’s presidents this century.
One other former chief, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, 86, is at present on trial for his alleged function within the scheme, with prosecutors looking for a 35-year jail sentence.