The ex-president Ollanta Humala (2011-2016) and his wife, Nadine Heredia, face from this Monday the beginning of the oral trial in Peru for the alleged irregular financing of their 2006 and 2011 electoral campaigns by the Brazilian company Odebrecht and the Venezuelan Government of Hugo Chávez .
After seven years of the beginning of the fiscal investigation, Humala and his wife, his main collaborator during his Government, will face the first oral trial against a former Peruvian president in the framework of the scandal of Lava Jato corruptionextended to a dozen Latin American countries.
As well as Humala, former presidents are being investigated in Peru Alexander Toledo (2001-2006), pending extradition from the United States; and Peter Paul Kuczynski (2016-2018), in house arrest for four years.
The prosecution also surrounded with its investigations the former president Alan García (2006-2011) and when he was about to arrest him at his home in Lima in 2019The former president committed suicide with a shot to the head.
In Peru, the construction company Odebrecht acknowledged having bribed high-ranking officials between 2005 and 2014 to win major public works and also allegedly irregularly financed the campaigns of numerous former candidates, such as the right-wing Keiko Fujimori.
20-year sentence for Humala
The opening of the oral trial against Humala has been convened for Monday, February 21, by the Third National Collegiate Criminal Court, presided over by Judge Nayko Coronado and also made up of Judges Raúl Caballero and Max Vengoa.
However, sources linked to the case told Efe that the start of the oral trial could be postponed, although no official communication has yet been made in this regard.
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In his accusation, the anti-corruption prosecutor Germán Juárez, who leads an investigation initially opened in 2015, has requested 20 years in prison for Humala and 26 years in prison for Heredia for not declaring millionaire donations with which they financed the former president’s first two electoral campaigns. .
Presumed support of Chavez and Lula
According to the prosecutor’s thesis, in 2006 the money allegedly came from the deceased former president of Venezuela Hugo Chávez (1999-2013) and in 2011 allegedly received 3 million dollars from the construction company Odebrecht by order of the Brazilian Workers’ Party, of former president Lula Da Silva (2003-2010).
During the time the investigation lasted, The former president and his wife spent almost ten months in provisional prison separated in different prisons between July 2017 and April 2018until the Constitutional Court ordered his release as it was considered an excessive measure.
Once released, Humala and Heredia had to face the seizure of their home and, with it, the seizure of their furniture as a preventive measure to ensure the collection of compensation in favor of the State in the event that they were sentenced to a trial that it was still far from beginning. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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