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Former President Peru, Ollanto Humala, was found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
A court in the LiMa capital said Humala had received illegal funds from the Brazilian Odebrecht construction company for banking companies in 2006 and 2011.
His wife, Nadin Herad, who founded a nationalist party with Humala, was also found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to 15 years.
Prosecutors asked Humala to be sentenced to 20 years in prison and ered up to 26 and a half years.
After the trial, which lasted more than three years, the court sentenced its long -awaited verdict on Tuesday.
Humala personally attended the verdict while his wife heard him in video.
The 62-year-old former president and his wife denied any violations.
Humala, a former army officer who fought with the insurgents with the brilliant Maoist ways, first came to national fame in 2000, when he led a short military uprising against President Albert Fujimora.
In 2006, he ran for the president. At the time, he united with the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, and the prosecutor’s office stated that Humala had accepted illegal financing from Chavez to finance his company.
His competitor in the presidency, Alan Garcia, used close Humala’s ties with Chavez as a way to attack him, warning the voters, “without allowing Peru into another Venezuela.”
In 2011, Humala again ran for the presidency, this time on a more moderate platform.
He said that, instead of imitating the Socialist Revolution of Chavez in Venezuela, he modeling his policy in that at the time Luis Inazio Loul to Silva.
His approach was successful, and he won his right competitor Kayko Fujimora.
But violent social conflicts at the beginning of their presidency quickly interfered with its popularity.
He also lost the support of many Congress members, further weakening his position.
His legal trouble began shortly after his term expired in 2016.
In that year, the Brazilian construction giant Adebrecht confessed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in government officials and political parties across Latin America to win business orders.
The prosecutors accused Humala and his wife of getting millions of Dollars from Adebrech.
A year later, the judge ordered the couple to be placed in the pre -trial detention.
They were released a year later, but the investigation of their connections with Odebrecht continued, the culmination of which today was the sentence.
