The judges also order the jail or Nadine Heredia, Humala’s wife, in the same case, but Sheflees to Brazil with their son.
A court in Peru condemned former President Ollanta Humala and his wife, Nadine Heredia, 15 years in prison for the washing of $ 3 million received from the Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht and $ 200,000 of the government of the then Venzuelan
Humala, 62, was tasks in custody after the verdict was delivered on Tuesday and then imprisoned at a police station, but his 48 -year -old wife requests asylum at the Brazilian embassy in Lima, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru.
Heredia was granted a safe passage to travel to Brazil with her youngest son, the ministry said.
Duration his trial, which lasted three years after an investigation that began in 2016, Humala denounced charges as political persecution. Your lawyer’s plan to appeal Tuesday’s verdict.
The prosecutors claimed that Humala received the illicit funds in his 2011 campaign against Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of the other former president, through the Nationalist Party of Humala.
Humala, a retired military officer who directed the Andean nation from 2011 to 2016, will probably carry out his sentence in a police base specifically built to house the imprisoned leaders of Peru.
Former presidents Alejandro Toledo and Pedro Castillo are currently imprisoned on the site, while the late Alberto Fujimori remained there for 16 months until his launch in 2023.
Toledo, in the power from 2001 to 2006, was sentenced last year to more than 20 years in prison for acceptance of $ 35 million in bribes in exchange for government contracts.
Former President Pedro Castillo is also being arrested while facing “rebellion” charges after a failed attempt to dissolve Congress in 2022.
In 2019, former President Alan García committed suicide for a gunshot wound while the police descended at home to judge him for alleged corruption related to Odebrecht.
In 2016, Odebrecht agreed to pay $ 3.5 billion in fines in Brazil, the United States and Switzerland that arise from payments of more than $ 788 million in bribes to foreign leaders and government officials to win infrastructure projects.