A former first lady of Peru fled to the Brazilian embassy in Lima on Tuesday, asking for the asylum when she and her husband were sentenced to prison in a money laundering verdict that makes him the third Peruvian president imprisoned for corruption in the past two decades.
The former president condemned Ollanta Humala on Tuesday on Tuesday, had been sentenced with his wife, Nadine Heredia, of having turned money to a construction company at the center of a sprawling Latin American corruption scandal to finance one of his campaigns for the president.
Humala, a former army commander who was president from 2011 to 2016, and his wife were sentenced to 15 years in prison.
They had been accused of having received nearly $ 3 million in illegal contributions in its 2011 race, mainly Odebrecht, the Brazilian construction giant linked to corruption in Latin America. He was also found guilty of having received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Venezuelan government of Hugo Chávez for an unsuccessful campaign of 2006.
Mr. Humala and Mrs. Heredia denied the reprehensible acts.
In a sign of the long -standing difficulties of Peru against corruption and political dysfunction, and periodic attempts to slow down these problems, Mr. Humala is one of the six former presidents to have experienced a potential prison sentence in the last two decades – as long as the authorities have transformed a former police academy on the peripherals of Lima into a small prison for them.
Police escorted Mr. Humala, 62 on Tuesday from the courtroom after reading his sentence. But his wife did not attend the hearing – in which a judge ordered their immediate imprisonment.
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