Peru asks world to help find fugitive former president Toledo
Fri Feb 10, 2017 | 4:40pm GMT
Peru asks world to help find fugitive former president Toledo
Feb 10 Peru put former president Alejandro Toledo on its list of the country's most wanted criminals on Friday after a judge issued an international warrant over allegations he took $20 million in bribes from Brazilian builder Odebrecht.
The interior ministry offered 100,000 soles ($30,000) for any information leading to his capture and urged Interpol to quickly issue a red alert to help find him.
"Anyone in the world who can help us find him can claim the reward," Interior Minister Carlos Basombrio said on local TV station Canal N.
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Toledo rose to power denouncing widespread corruption in the government of his predecessor Alberto Fujimori, who fled to Japan amid a far-reaching graft inquiry in 2000. Fujimori is now serving a 25-year sentence in Peru for corruption and human rights abuses committed during his decade-long authoritarian rule.
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