Former Peru President Pedro Castillo has been handed prison sentence.
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison for attempting to disband Peru’s Congress and rule by decree in 2022 which failed leading to his impeachment and arrest.
Castillo was later on found guilty of “conspiracy to commit rebellion” by the Supreme Court, which handed down the sentence at the same time as convicting him.
His sentence comes a day after another former Peruvian president, Martín Vizcarra, was handed 14 years’ in prison for bribe-taking.
According to reports, the politician was found guilty of taking bribes while governor of the Moquegua region between 2011 and 2014.
According to prosecutors, he received bribes worth more than $600,000 (£453,753) from construction companies who were seeking contracts for public works.
