BRIBERY: Jail move for ex-president

PERU’S  Attorney General   is seeking preventive detention for former President Alejandro Toledo for the alleged crimes of money laundering and corruption related to Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.

Panama is working with Peruvian authorities on investigations into  the company and the bribes it  admitted to paying in exchange for state contracts

Swiss authorities have   solicited  aid  from Panam in investigating the country’ss former president Ricardo Martinelli.

Toledo is accused of receiving $20 million in exchangefor two contracts to build interoceanic highways linking Brazil with the Peruvian Pacific coast, according to a confession given by detainee Jorge Barata, a former Odebrecht epresentative in Peru.

Toledo denied taking any bribes in an interview via Skype from Paris with the local television show Cuarto Poder.

He demanded prosecutors reveal  “the bank account where I have $20 million.”

He added that he will return to Stanford University where he is a guest lecturer, and will not return to Peru at this moment.
Martinelli Panama’s ex-president, fled to the US over two years ago and is holed up in  a luxury apartment in Miami, where he continues to receive visits from  his lawyers  and members of the CD party he founded.