Peru’s former first lady seeks asylum in Brazilian Embassy as she and ex-President Humala sentenced to prison

Peru's ex-first lady arrives in Brazil for asylum to evade prison

Peru's former First Lady Nadine Heredia and her youngest son arrived in Brazil on Wednesday after the neighboring country granted her asylum, her lawyer and the foreign ministries of both countries said. Brazil’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Heredia's flight arrived in the capital, Brasilia under the terms of a diplomatic asylum convention that Peru and Brazil are both part of. Heredia and her son will now go through the procedures …

Heredia was convicted in a corruption scandal related to $3 million in illegal financing for the election campaign of her husband, former President Oyanda Umala

The woman landed in the country with her son, while her husband was sent to a prison in the Latin American country.

Nadine Heredia, the former president of the Nationalist Party, the woman who had a determining influence on her husband's term of office, Ollanta Humala, left early this Wednesday for Brazil after receiving the political asylum of Lula da Silva's government and the consent of Dina Boluarte's executive. Heredia was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the crime of aggravated money laundering. The judiciary found her guilty of having received unlaw…

Political asylum has been granted to Nadine Heredia, wife of the former President of the Republic of Peru, Ollanta Humala, and her youngest son, after conviction for money laundering. READ ALSO Peru: Dina Boluarte promulgates law against human rights NGOs The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru made a statement stating that Heredia went to the Brazilian Embassy in Lima to seek political asylum pursuant to the 1954 Convention on Diplomatic Asylum…

By Ivonne Valdés, CNN en Español Nadine Heredia, former first lady of Peru and wife of former President Ollanta Humala, arrived in Brazil on Wednesday after obtaining diplomatic asylum. Heredia was sentenced to 15 years in prison for both her and her husband for money laundering through illicit contributions accepted during Humala's political campaigns in 2006 and 2011, her lawyer Julio Espinoza told CNN. Heredia traveled with her minor son, Esp…