At 11:00 in Peru, the former president of Peru, Alexander Toledo, you must appear before the California authorities in San Jose; Before that, he asked his country’s justice not to allow his “death in prison”.

Until the date of his extradition to Peru is finalized, where he will receive 18 months of preventive detention, he will likely remain in one of the San Jose prisons.

Yesterday, a U.S. court rejected another appeal by former President Alejandro Toledo to suspend his extradition to Peru, for which he was set to turn himself in to California authorities on Friday, according to court documents released Thursday.

Toledo had filed an urgent request Thursday morning with a Washington court to delay the trial.However, the agency responded negatively a few hours later.

The Peruvian politician, who is under house arrest in California, is facing charges of corruption and money laundering in Lima in the Odebrecht case and must turn himself in to a federal court in San Jose on Friday to begin the extradition process from the United States. .

The 77-year-old former president denies the allegations and has launched several petitions to block the extradition that Peru has been seeking since 2018 and authorized by the United States in February.

All his calls to delay the process have been rejected, including a last-minute request at a hearing on Wednesday to delay his delivery by four days due to medical obligations.

Alejandro Toledo, the shoeshine boy who became president of Peru, under the weight of the Odebrecht case

“We are ready to transfer Dr. Toledo to Peru to comply with the court order,” said U.S. government representative Kyle Waldinger.

Judge Thomas Hixson ordered the Peruvian politician to turn himself in Friday at 9 a.m. local time to a federal court in San Jose, about 25 miles from Menlo Park, where he lives with his wife, Eliane Karp.

The former president will remain “in a suitable prison” until he is handed over to Peruvian authoritiesHixson detailed.

The judge this Thursday requested that Toledo’s passport be handed over to the US authorities and authorized Karp’s passport to be returned to him once “the defendant has turned himself in”.

The politician, who ruled Peru from 2001 to 2006, is a native of the United States, where he studied and worked at Stanford University.

Following Lima’s allegations and extradition request, he was arrested in California in 2019 and placed under house arrest with an electronic ankle bracelet the following year.

Peru accuses him of receiving millions of dollars from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht in exchange for public works tenders. Prosecutors are seeking 20 years and six months in prison.

Odebrecht acknowledged the payment of bribes in Brazil and other countries in the region in connection with the Lava Jato scandal, for which Dozens of Latin American politicians and businessmen are in prison.

What is the long list of Peruvian ex-presidents in prison or facing lawsuits

Four other former Peruvian presidents face corruption charges: ollanta humala (2011-2016), Peter-Paul Kuczynsky (2016-2018), Martin Vizcarra (2018-2020) and Pedro Castillo (2021-2022).

Former President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) was also convicted of corruption, in addition to crimes against humanity, and Alan García (2006-2011) committed suicide in 2019 as police were about to arrest him on suspicion of ties to the Odebrecht case. .