Peru investigates the Brazilian firm Camargo Correa for bribes to Toledo

The Brazilian construction company Camargo Correa was included in the investigation against former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006) for allegedly having bribed him like Odebrecht to obtain different awards in the construction of the southern interoceanic highway.

Camargo Correa thus becomes charged with the alleged crimes of collusion and money laundering, according to the resolution of Judge Richard Concepción, of the First National Preparatory Investigation Court, in charge of supervising the investigation.

The magistrate included the Brazilian company at the request of the Special Prosecutor’s Office, in charge of investigating the implications in Peru of the Lava Jato case, the largest corruption scandal in Brazil.

According to the evidence gathered by the prosecutors in charge of the case, Toledo allegedly received a $ 5.4 million bribe from Camargo Correa to win the tender for the fourth section of the southern interoceanic highway.

This amount is added to the 35 million dollars that Odebrecht allegedly paid in bribes to Toledo to keep the construction of sections two and three of the same work, a chapter whose investigation has already been concluded by the Prosecutor’s Office, which is requesting 20 years and 6 months in jail against Toledo.

DELATED BY TESTAFERRO

A good part of the route of the money paid by these companies was traced by the Israeli businessman Yosef Maiman, the main figurehead that Toledo had to hide these illicit payments, who signed an effective collaboration agreement (award-winning accusation) with the Prosecutor’s Office.

The southern interoceanic highway, also known as the South Interoceanic Road Corridor Integral Project (IRRSA Sur), was one of the emblematic works promoted by Toledo during his mandate to connect the port of Ilo, in the Pacific Ocean, with the border with Brazil. at the height of the state of Acre.

The objective was to facilitate the transport of people and goods between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, in a long route of five days of travel.

The bribes received by Toledo in different tax havens were later amassed in the accounts of Ecoteva, a company founded in Costa Rica in the name of the Belgian Eva Fernenbug, Toledo’s mother-in-law.

Through Ecoteva, the former president acquired millionaire real estate in Peru, both in Lima and on the northern beaches, near the border with Ecuador.

PENDING EXTRADITION

Since the investigations began at the end of 2016, Toledo is in California (United States) pending that the American Justice accepts the extradition request presented by his Peruvian counterparts so that the former president is tried for these events.

The trial to evaluate the extradition request was due to begin in June, but Judge Thomas Hixson, of the Northern District Court of California, accepted the request of Toledo’s defense to postpone it until September.

Toledo has always denied the accusations against him, has alluded to political persecution and refuses to go to preventive prison without a final sentence.