Alejandro Toledo, Peruvian former president has been sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison.

Toledo was sentenced on Monday for taking $35m bribes from a Brazilian construction company, Odebrecht, in exchange for letting it win a contract to build the road that connects Peru to western Brazil.

DAILY POST reports that the 78-year-old who governed the Andean nation between 2001 and 2006, was arrested in California in 2019, and extradited to Peru in 2023.

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Toledo denied the money laundering and collusion charges against him during the year long trial.

Also, two other ex-presidents, Ollanta Humala and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, are being investigated in the Odebrecht case.