US EditionVizcarra Becomes Latest Ex-President Imprisoned in Peru
Martin Vizcarra faces five months pretrial detention over $640,000 bribery allegations, becoming Peru's fifth former president jailed amid ongoing political corruption scandals.
- A judge in Peru ordered former President Martin Vizcarra to be held in pre-trial detention for five months over bribery allegations, citing him as a flight risk.
- Vizcarra is accused of accepting over 2.3 million soles in bribes while he was governor of Moquegua from 2011 to 2014.
- He is now the fourth former president imprisoned for corruption in Peru, alongside Alejandro Toledo, Ollanta Humala, and Pedro Castillo.
- Vizcarra claimed the charges are political persecution and abuse of his rights, urging for the protection of Peruvian democracy.
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The former centrist leader will remain in pretrial detention for five months in the Lima prison of Barbadillo, after being accused of receiving bribes during his term as governor of Moquegua Read
Former Peruvian President Vizcarra placed under preventive arrest
Peru's Seventh National Preliminary Investigation Court ordered five months of preventive detention for former President Martín Vizcarra (2018-2020) on charges of passive bribery. In his ruling, Judge Jorge Chávez Tamariz cited procedural and flight risks, ordering the sentence to be enforced immediately.
He who led the country between 2018 and 2020 is incarcerated in a trial for alleged corruption when he was governor eleven years ago. He must be transferred to a prison where three other former heads of state are already detained.
The Public Prosecutor's Office seeks 15 years' imprisonment for collusion, as well as disqualification and fines.
Former President Martín Vizcarra will sleep in the historic Barbadillo farm, which went from being a police base to a luxury prison, along with three former prisoners: Alejandro Toledo, Ollanta Humala and Pedro Castillo, and thus breaks a new record: four former presidents are imprisoned at the same time in the history of the republic that has already been 204 years. The first tenant of Barbadillo’s luxury prison was the late former president, A…
Los Angeles Times
Independent EspañolA judge from Peru ordered on Wednesday pretrial detention for five months for former President Martín Vizcarra while the trial that follows him continues for alleged acts of corruption committed when he was governor of a region in 2014.
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