Ex-president of Peru Olyanta Umala was sentenced to 15 years in prison for money laundering.
According to the messages of the Peruvian press, the National Supreme Court ruled that Umala and his wife Nadine Eredia received about $ 3 million illegal studies from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht and the Venezuela government during their election campaigns of 2006 and 2011.
After the court’s decision on the “immediate temporary execution of the sentence” of Umala, which was present at the hearing, was transferred to the police to representatives of the National Penitentiary Institute (Inpe).
The wife of Umala, Eredia, was also found guilty of the leadership of the election campaign and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
“In this case, a crime of money laundering was committed. Various actions aimed at laundering money of illegal origin,” the judge said
Eredia turned for a asylum to the Brazilian Embassy
Eredia, who participated in a video conference, after the verdict announced the asylum at the Brazil embassy in Lima.
Meanwhile, the brother of Eredia, Ilan Eredia, was also sentenced to 12 years in prison in the same case.
It is reported that Umala will serve her term in the Barbadillo prison in Lima along with other former presidents.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru confirmed that Nadine Eredia is in the Brazil embassy, and stated that the Government of Brazil and Peru were in constant contact on this issue.
“Mrs. Eredia turned to Brazil for a refuge in accordance with the 1954 diplomatic shelter Convention, whose participants are Peru and Brazil,” the ministry said.
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Odebrecht scandal
This sentence of Olyant Umala became the third president of Peru, convicted in connection with the Odebrecht scandal. Previously, the former presidents Alejandro Toledo and Alberto Fuhimory were also sentenced to imprisonment for similar corruption crimes.
In 2016, the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht admitted to the giving bribes to numerous officials throughout Latin America, which provoked lawsuits against many seniorly in Peru.