Former Peruvian President Toledo receives second sentence: 13 years and 4 months in prison for money laundering

Lima.- Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006) was sentenced this Wednesday to 13 years and 4 months in prison for the crime of money laundering in the so-called Ecoteva case, the second sentence issued against him for a corruption crime committed during his government. The Ninth Liquidation Criminal Court of Lima issued the sentence against Toledo as a result of the real estate acquisitions made with money illicitly transferred in the form of bribes by the Brazilian companies Odebrecht and Camargo Correa to the company Ecoteva, founded in Costa Rica by the former president’s mother-in-law Eva Fernenbug.

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The imputation is aggravated money laundering to the detriment of the State and, along with Toledo, his wife Eliane Karp, his former head of security Avraham Dan On, Shai Da On, and Eva Fernenbug are co-authors.

The former Peruvian president is held in Barbadillo prison, Peru’s prison reserved for former presidents and located in eastern Lima, where he is serving a first sentence of 20 years in prison for the crime of collusion and money laundering for the bribes received from Odebrecht to award him the construction of several sections of the Interoceanic highway.