Arrest warrant for ex-president Toledo
A Peruvian judge issued a global capture warrant on Thursday for previous president Alejandro Toledo and said he ought to spend up to year and a half in prison while prosecutors examine him for professedly taking $20 million in influences from Brazilian developer Odebrecht SA. Judge Richard Concepcion said confirm revealed so far in a unite test, including declaration from an Odebrecht official and bank records, justified placing Toledo in "preventive jail" while charges of impact selling and illegal tax avoidance were readied. In issuing a capture warrant, Concepcion said Toledo seemed to have utilized the "high office of the administration" to "make an illicit agreement" to auction a parkway venture that guaranteed to incorporate the locale. Toledo, who rose to control censuring the defilement of his ancestor, has more than once denied taking influences from Odebrecht. Toledo was in France a week ago and missing from the hearing. On the off chan...