Former Peruvian president, Himala Himala, is guilty of money laundering

The former president of Peru, Umna Humala, was convicted of money laundering and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

A court in the capital, Lima, said that Hemaala accepted illegal money from the Brazilian Building Company, Odebrecht, to finance his election campaigns in 2006 and 2011.

His wife, Nadine Heridia, who participated in the founding of the National Party with Humala, was also convicted of laundering and sentenced to 15 years in prison.

The Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Heridia was granted asylum by Brazil and will have a safe passage to travel there with her son.

Prosecutors have requested that they be sentenced to 20 years in prison and HERDIA for 26 and a half years.

After a trial that lasted for more than three years, the court issued its long -awaited ruling on Tuesday.

Humal attended the verdict personally while his wife heard him via the video link.

The former 62 -year -old and his wife denied any violations.

Humala, a former army officer who fought against the bright rebels in the Maoists, came for the first time in 2000 when he led a short -term military rebellion against the then President Alberto Fujimuri.

In 2006, he was nominated for the presidency. He allied with the Venezuelan President at the time, Hugo Chavez, and the prosecutors claimed that Hemaala had accepted illegal funding from Chavez to finance his campaign.

His opponent for the presidency, Alan Garcia, used Humala’s close relationship with Chavez as a way to attack him, and warned voters against “not allowing Peru to transfer to another Venezuela.”

In 2011, Humala ran for the presidency again, this time on a more moderate platform.

He said that instead of simulating the Socialist Revolution of Ceveles in Venezuela, he would design his policies on the Brazilian President’s policies at that time, Luiz Insio Lula da Silva.

His approach proved his success and defeated his right rival, Kiko Fujimori.

But violent social conflicts early on his presidency took away his popularity.

He also supported many members of Congress, which weakened his position.

His legal problems began shortly after the end of his term in 2016.

That year, the Brazilian Odebrecht giant admitted to paying hundreds of millions of dollars from bribes to government officials and political parties throughout Latin America, to earn work orders.

Prosecutors accused Humala and his wife of receiving millions of dollars from Odebrecht.

A year later, the judge ordered that the couple be placed in detention before the trial.

They were released after a year, but the investigation of their links with Odebrecht continued, and reached its climax in today’s ruling.