The judges also order the imprisonment of Humara’s wife, Nadine Heredia, in the same case, but she flees to Brazil with her son.
A Peruvian court sentenced former president Oranta Humara and his wife Nadine Heredia to former president, Nadine Heredia, in 15 years’ prison, for the $3 million she received from Brazilian construction company Odebrecht and $200,000 from then-Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Humara, 62, was detained after a verdict was held on Tuesday and later jailed at a police station, but his 48-year-old wife has called for asylum at the Brazilian embassy in Lima, according to Peru’s Foreign Ministry.
Heredia was allowed to pass safely to travel to Brazil with her youngest child, the ministry said.
In his trial, which lasted three years after an investigation that began in 2016, Humala accused the accusations of political persecution. His attorney is scheduled to appeal Tuesday’s verdict.
Prosecutors alleged that Humala received illegal funds in a 2011 campaign against Kendo, Fujiwara, the daughter of another former president, through Humala’s Nationalist Party.
Humala, a retired military officer who led the Andean countries from 2011 to 2016, will be sentenced to prison at a police base that specially built an imprisoned leader in Peru.
Former Presidents Alejandro Toledo and Pedro Castillo are currently in jail at the location, and the late Alberto Fujimori remained there for 16 months before his release in 2023.
From 2001 to 2006, Toledo was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison last year for accepting $35 million in bribes in exchange for a government contract.
Former President Pedro Castillo is in custody as he faces charges of “rebellion” after a failed attempt to dissolve Congress in 2022.
In 2019, former President Alan Garcia committed suicide with a gunshot wound as police descended to his home to arrest him on suspicion of corruption related to Odebrecht.
In 2016, Odebrecht agreed to pay $3.5 billion fines in Brazil, the US and Switzerland resulting from more than $788 million payments to foreign leaders and government officials to win infrastructure projects.
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