The ex-president Alexander Toledo will be transferred by helicopter from the Jorge Chávez airport to the Barbadillo prisonwhere the former presidents are also confined Alberto Fujimori and Pedro Castillo.
The transfer of the defendant for money laundering and collusion will take place this Sunday, after the proceedings headed by the National Prosecutor, Patricia Benavides. The US marshals delivered it this morning at the Police Aviation headquarters, located inside the airfield.
Toledo will also be examined by medical examiners, before being formally handed over to the Judiciary for the identity control procedure. After his evaluation by Legal Medicine and his hearing before a judge, he will arrive at the prison.
The helicopter is scheduled to land on the court shown below, according to images released by channel no.
Sued by the Peruvian Justice since 2017, the founder of the Perú Posible party is accused of having received some 35 million dollars from the Odebrecht company, after favoring it in the bidding for contracts for the construction of the South Interoceanic Route that connects Peru with Brazil.
The Prosecutor’s Office has requested for him sentences of 20 years and 6 months in prison for the concession of sections 2 and 3 of this highway; 35 years for section 4, and 16 years and 8 months for alleged money laundering in the Ecoteva Case.
Toledo he turned himself in to the US court on Friday in compliance with the arrest warrant issued by Judge Thomas Hixson. Although he had to appear at the Robert F. Peckham building, headquarters of the Court for the Northern District of California, in the city of San José (California), the former president placed himself in the hands of the authorities of that country in a different headquarters to avoid the press.
Previously, he had been seen leaving his home. He was wearing a green jacket and had several suitcases in the black van that would take him to court. He was accompanied by his wife, Eliane Karp, his attorney Mara Goldman and a third person.
After an administrative procedure in court, Toledo went to a jail in the San Mateo district while he awaits the coordination of the Peruvian and North American authorities for his transfer to Peru. In the national territory he awaits a preventive prison 18 months for the alleged crimes of collusion and money laundering in the Interoceánica case.
Having an outstanding arrest warrant, Toledoonce he is brought to Peru he will have to be confined in a penitentiary center, to serve his preventive detention.
In addition, although the choice of the prison to which he will be confined will be evaluated and made by a classification board (made up of a lawyer, a social worker and a psychologist), it is very likely that he will be confined in the Barbadillo Penitentiary Establishment, which is located located within the facilities of the Directorate of Special Operations (DIROES) and works autonomously through the National Penitentiary Institute.
Lawyer José Arrieta Caro, a specialist in criminal law at the PUCP, explained to RPP that the visiting regime that Toledo would have will be “subject to the classification made with respect to the risk that this particular inmate represents.” This will be determined by the qualifying board.
For his part, the head of the National Penitentiary Institute (Inpe), Javier Llaque considered that “there is no problem receiving” former president Alejandro Toledo in the prison of ex-founded Barbadillo, if it is determined that it be derived there.
The official told Canal N that once the former president arrives in Peru, he will be placed at the disposal of the Judiciary, which will hold an identity control hearing, will refer him to Inpe, whose qualification board will determine the prison to which he will go and under what regime. of custody.
Javier Llaque added that the Police will be in charge of the transfer of the former president to the establishment designated for his internment.
In addition, he considered “very likely” that Toledo will go to the confinement scepter of the ex-fundo Barbadillo, for housing ex-presidents.
“We have the conditions to receive it; that is beyond doubt, ”he mentioned and recalled that the ex-presidents are in that prison Alberto Fujimori and Pedro Castillo. In addition, Ollanta Humala was also held there, with preventive detention.
Javier Llaque explained that in the Barbadillo prison “There will always be capacity for one more” and he assured that, in the cases of former presidents, they have adequate conditions in their bedrooms: they have a television with open-signal channels, and an outdoor patio.
However, if the regime is of a special nature, the inmates cannot go out into the courtyard for more than two to four hours, he explained.
Finally, he pointed out that the conditions of Fujimori and Castillo obey the ordinary prison regime, and that they are applied equally, both to those who are sentenced or under preventive detention, as is the case of Toledo, who would arrive in two or three days to Peru.
