Former Peru’s first lady Nadine Heredia arrived in Brazil in the early afternoon of Wednesday (16), on a Brazilian Air Force (FAB) plane.
Now she will undergo an extensive agenda at the Federal Police (PF) of Juscelino Kubitschek Airport in Brasilia, where she will update her migratory status and receive the documentation that will guarantee her diplomatic asylum.
According to sources from the Itamaraty Palace, Nadine will not have to attend the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Everything will be resolved in the PF, with the Ministry of Justice.
According to lawyer Marco Aurélio de Carvalho, from the group prerogatives that acts in the defense of Nadine, the former first lady and the youngest son, Samin Mallko Ollanta Humala Heredia, intend to live in the city of São Paulo (SP).
The wife of former Peruvian president Ollanta Humala, Nadine requested diplomatic asylum to Brazil on Tuesday (15), a few hours after Peru’s court condemning the couple to 15 years in prison for unlawful money laundering in election campaigns.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru, Heredia entered the Brazilian embassy in Lima shortly after the sentence, seeking diplomatic protection. Magistrate Nayko Coronado Salazar, responsible for the trial, issued immediate arrest warrants after the court’s decision.
Humala and his wife were accused of receiving funds from Odebrecht, now known as Novoonor, in his successful 2011 election campaign. The court also points out that both received money from the Venezuelan government, which was at the time commanded by Hugo Chavez.
The defense informed CNN that it intends to appeal to Peru’s Supreme Court against the pre-trial detention of the former Peruvian president.
“As a lawyer who worked on obtaining documents, evidence and declarations of nullity for them here in Brazil, I can say that the foundation of the decision ignored the obvious unlawfulness of various evidence and many that derived from them, as occurred here in similar cases of Lava Jato,” said Leonardo Massud, one of the responsible lawyers.
Most recent condemnation of the “Lava Jato”
The old Odebrecht admitted to having paid bribe to governments of all Latin America to help build its vast empire. The company changed its name to Novoonor in 2020 and is currently in the process of bankruptcy.
Humala is the third former peru president already arrested for involvement in Lava Jato and the fourth implicated in cases of corruption with the Brazilian contractor.
In 2019, former President Alan Garcia killed himself with a shot when police went to his home to arrest him for alleged corruption related to the company.
The year before, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski was forced to resign after only two years in office. Meanwhile, Toledo was sentenced to two decades of arrest last year after receiving $ 35 million in bribes in exchange for public works contracts.
Former Odebrecht executives said in a Peruvian court that the company funded almost all presidential candidates in the country for almost 30 years.
This content was originally published in after receiving asylum in Brazil, a former peru-first lady intends to live in SP on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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