US EditionPeru sentences ex-president Vizcarra to 14 years in prison for corruption
Vizcarra received $676,000 in bribes for contracts awarded as Moquegua governor and was banned from public office for nine years, court ruled.
- On Wednesday, a Peruvian court in Lima sentenced former President Martín Vizcarra to 14 years in prison after finding him guilty of taking bribes years before he took office.
- As governor of Moquegua, Vizcarra allegedly took illegal payments, receiving approximately $611,000 in bribes from construction companies for irrigation and hospital contracts.
- Throughout the trial that began last October, Vizcarra denied wrongdoing as prosecutors sought a 15-year sentence and the verdict cited alleged $676K bribes.
- The court ordered immediate imprisonment and a nine-year ban from public office for Martín Vizcarra, former President, while his brother Mario Vizcarra plans an April 2026 presidential run; three other former presidents, including Alejandro Toledo and Ollanta Humala, are also jailed.
- Peru's recent political turmoil provides the backdrop, with six presidents since 2018 amid corruption scandals, while Martín Vizcarra's conviction involves graft before his presidency, removing a key figure from the fraught scene.
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Head of State between 2018 and 2020, Martín Vizcarra received fourteen years in prison for having, while he was governor, awarded public contracts in exchange for bribes. For over thirty years, almost all the presidents of the country have been prosecuted for malfeasance.
The Vizcarra Case - How A “Clean” President Ended Up In Peru’s Presidents’ Prison
Martín Vizcarra was once sold as the engineer-governor who would modernise Peru and clean up politics. This week, a court ruled he was part of the same old machine. Judges sentenced the former president to 14 years in prison for taking about 2.3 million soles (about $684,000) in bribes while he was governor of the […]
Peru’s former leader sentenced to 14 years for graft
Peru sentenced former President Martín Vizcarra to 14 years in prison, joining a number of former leaders to be jailed for corruption in the country. The court said Vizcarra had taken hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from construction firms in exchange for public contracts during his time as governor. The former leader is expected to serve his sentence in the same prison where three other ex-presidents are held. Despite years of progre…
Lima. A Peruvian court yesterday sentenced former President Martín Vizcarra to 14 years in prison after considering that he received bribes from construction companies when he was governor of the Moquegua region in the south of the country and disqualified him from holding public office for nine years.
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