US EditionEx-President Ollanta Humala Sentenced to 15 Years in Peru Corruption Case
- Ollanta Humala and Nadine Heredia received a 15-year sentence from a Peruvian court on Tuesday.
- The sentencing occurred due to laundering funds received from Odebrecht and Hugo Chávez.
- Humala's 2006 and 2011 campaigns were financed with the illegal funds, according to the court.
- Odebrecht confessed to paying millions in bribes across Latin America; García warned of "another Venezuela".
- Humala, age 62, and Heredia maintained their innocence throughout the trial, which began in 2022.
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Brazilian opposition repudiates Lula's government for providing asylum to Ollanta Humala's wife - La Tercera
The Brazilian opposition criticized on Wednesday the granting of political asylum by the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to Nadine Heredia, the wife of the former president of Peru Ollanta Humala, who was sentenced by the Justice of his country to fifteen years in prison for laundering assets from the Brazilian company Odebrecht.
Peru's former president Ollanta Humala jailed for 15 years over money laundering - as his wife is granted asylum
The 62-year-old is the third former Peruvian president to be imprisoned for corruption in the past two decades - with a police base specially built to accommodate jailed leaders.
Peru jails ex-president over corruption scandal
The NewsPeru jailed a former president for accepting bribes from a Brazilian construction firm, the latest senior politician to be felled by a continent-wide corruption scandal. Ollanta Humala, who led Peru from 2011 to 2016, was found guilty of accepting illicit campaign funds from Odebrecht, which has admitted to handing out bribes for years across Latin America. Humala is the second former Peruvian leader to be jailed over the scandal, known …
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