Conviction of former Peruvian first lady in asylum in Brazil involves accusation box 2; understand the process

Mauro Vieira stated that the diplomatic asylum granted to the former First Lady of Peru was based on legal and humanitarian grounds

The Peruvian prosecutor's office accused the former president of Peru and his wife of laundering assets for allegedly hiding that they received three million dollars from Odebrecht for the 2011 campaign that led him to the presidency.

Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira said on Friday that the government granted asylum to the former first lady of Peru, Nadine Heredia, sentenced to 15 years in prison in her country for money laundering, for "humanitarian" reasons. Heredia arrived Wednesday in Brazil with her youngest son from Lima, after Peruvian justice condemned her along with her husband, ex-mandatario Ollanta Humala, for having received illegal contributions from Brazi…

Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira said that the government granted asylum to the former Peruvian first lady for “humanitarian reasons”.

Nadine Heredia sought refuge and is in São Paulo after coming to the country on a Brazilian Air Force plane. The criminal action that convicted former Peruvian first lady Nadine Heredia and her husband, former president of Peru Ollanta Humala (who governed the neighboring country between 2011 and 2016), to 15 years in prison is filled with controversies ranging from the criminalization of the crime to the arrest of the president before a written…