The United States will return about US$686,000 to Peru. They were seized from former President Alejandro Toledo for receiving bribes from Brazilian construction group Odebrecht, the U.S. Justice Department announced on Wednesday, August 31.
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn allege that Odebrecht paid US$25 million in bribes to Toledo, Peru's president from 2001 to 2006, for road construction contracts.
Prosecutors say Toledo used about US$1.2 million in 2007 . . .
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