The administration of Dina Boluarte announced this Thursday that it will make “every effort” to finalize the extradition of Eliane Karpthe former first lady investigated by the Ecoteva case who left the United States for Israel, according to a confirmation from the Office for International Cooperation.
The Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Daniel Maurateindicated that the State will continue working to materialize the return of Karp, so that he appears before the Peruvian courts.
“With an extradition process, we will make every effort, with our teams, to see how we can make the necessary regulation and bring it to Peru,” he remarked.
The Chief of Staff, Alberto Otárola, pointed out, in the same way, that the Government carries out “permanent monitoring” of the situation of the wife of former president Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006), and pointed out that “the Prosecutor’s Office will have to issue a pronouncement about”.
“(This leak) has been an event outside of Peru and our authorities. The United States communicated to us that it did not have the legal way to prevent that trip, ”he said.
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Karp, on whom an 18-month preventive detention order falls, did not appear before the Ninth Criminal Chamber of the Lima Court, which resumed this Thursday the oral trial for this money laundering case opened in 2013 as a result of the millionaire purchase of real estate in the name of her name, Eva Fernerburg.
At the hearing, Judge Josefa Izaga reported that they will begin the extradition process once the Public Prosecutor’s Office submits to the Judiciary the request booklet for provisional detention.
The magistrate also indicated that they will wait for formal communications from the US authorities to decide if they will proceed to reserve the start of the judicial process. The prosecutor in the case, for his part, requested that updated information on Karp’s physical location be released through Interpol.
The Prosecutor’s Office has required the PJ to promote the detention notebook, after the Israeli authorities explained that they need this document to request that the wife of the former president, who was extradited in April, be intervened.
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Toledo is accused of obtaining bribes for more than 35 million dollars from Obebrecht in exchange for the concession of sections 2 and 3 of the Interoceanic Highway. The Public Ministry considers that part of that money was allegedly transferred to the company Ecoteva.
The Public Ministry presented a statement by Jorge Barata to prove the circumstances in which this millionaire amount would have been delivered. For the crime of money laundering, the Justice requests penalties of 16 years and 8 months in prison.
