US judge orders Peru ex-president to surrender in bribery case
Los Angeles (AFP) - A US judge on Wednesday ordered former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo to surrender this week ahead of an expected extradition to his home country on bribery charges. The 77-year-old, who served as Peru's president from 2001 until 2006, is wanted by Peruvian prosecutors investigating a sprawling scandal involving Brazilian construction conglomerate Odebrecht. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit had on Tuesday rejected Toledo's most recent legal move to block the extradition Peru has sought since 2018. On Wednesday, Judge Thomas Hixson of the Northern District ...