Nine other defendants will also be prosecuted in this case, the brother and mother of Nadine Heredia.
The Judicial Branch scheduled for February 21 to initiate an oral trial against former president Ollanta Humala and his wife Nadine Heredia for irregular contributions by the Brazilian company Odebrecht to their electoral campaigns.
Nine other defendants will also be prosecuted in this case, the brother and mother of Nadine Heredia.
Humala, 59, ruled Peru between 2011 and 2016. Together with his wife Nadine, 45, they have already spent nine months in preventive detention in 2017-2018 for this case.
Both are accused of receiving an illegal contribution of three million dollars from Odebrecht in the campaign that brought him to power in 2011.
In May 2019, the prosecution filed an accusation in court against Humala, a retired military officer and his wife for alleged money laundering in the framework of the Odebrecht case.
The complaint filed by the prosecutor Germán Juárez, from the Lava Jato special team, includes a request for the dissolution of the Peruvian Nationalist party, syndicated as a gang that would have received illegal money to finance the 2006 and 2011 campaigns.
This is the first formal accusation against a former Peruvian president for the Odebrecht scandal, a company that acknowledged having distributed tens of millions of dollars in Peru in bribes and illegal campaign donations.
The prosecution requested 20 years in prison for Humala and 26 years for his wife for “concealing purchases of real estate with Odebrecht money.”
Former Odebrecht bosses confessed to having illegally distributed millions of dollars among Peruvian politicians. That includes leader Keiko Fujimori and four former presidents, including Alan García (1985-1990 and 2006-2011), who committed suicide before being arrested in April 2019.
The former first lady is charged after the former head of Odebrecht in Peru, the Brazilian Jorge Barata, confessed that he personally gave her the money. (I)
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