Former Peru President Alejandro Toledo has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
He was sentenced by a Peruvian court on Monday 21st.
The former President was found guilty of collusion and money laundering for having received $35 million from Ode Brecht.
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He had served the nation as the president from 2001 to 2006.
The court found him guilty of accepting bribes in exchange for tenders to build two sections of an international highway linking the Pacific coast of Peru and the Atlantic Coast of Brazil.
Ode Brecht which changed his name to Novo nor had admitted to paying hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes throughout Latin America to secure huge public works contracts.
This led to several politicians and business figures behind bars.
Toledo was one of the Presidents who was found to be involved in the scandal as the company had acknowledged paying millions in bribes to Peruvian officials between 2005 and 2014.
Toledo was repatriated last year from United States before he surrendered to federal court building in California.
Being found guilty, the former president was sentenced to 20 years in prison for accepting multi-million bribes from scandal-hit Brazilian construction Ode Brecht.
The superior court accepted the prison term recommended by the prosecution which was announced at the hearing attended by Toledo.
He maintained by saying her was innocent of the claims and asked for leniency towards the sentence as he claimed he had cancer and heart problems.
He added that he wanted to go to private clinic and pleaded that he wanted to get better or die in his own home.
The former president’s lawyers told the reporters that they would appeal for his sentence.
