USA: ex-Peruvian president extradited

WASHINGTON - The United States has authorized the extradition of former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo, who served from 2001 to 2006. Toledo, 76, accused of corruption in Peru risks a sentence of twenty years and 6 months in prison. The Public Prosecutor's Office specified that it "coordinated" with the "national and foreign" authorities in view of the "next execution of his extradition". "No deadline has been set, but we hope it will not exceed eight weeks," Alfredo Rebaza, prosecutor at Peru's extradition office, told local RPP radio. Toledo, who studied at the American University of Stanford, has resided in the United States since the end of his term. He returned to Peru in 2011 and 2016 to run for president, but was defeated. In 2019 he was arrested in the United States for corruption in Peru. He has since been under house arrest in his California home and wears an electronic bracelet.