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Peru ex-leader Toledo wins reprieve in extradition from US

Published:Friday | April 7, 2023 | 5:53 PM
This booking photo released on March 18, 2019, by the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office shows former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo Manrique. A United States federal court has denied Toledo's appeal to stop his extradition to his native country to face corruption charges. Toledo filed for a stay on his extradition pending a legal challenge to the US State Department's decision to send him back to Peru where he is accused of taking $20 million in bribes from Odebrecht, a construction giant. (San Mateo County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo Manrique has been granted two more weeks to fight his extradition from the United States on corruption charges, halting extradition proceedings that had been set to start Friday.

Late Thursday, the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ordered a 14-day stay on Toledo's extradition to Peru.

The stay allows the 77-year-old former leader time to ask a three-judge panel to reconsider its decision denying him a stay or petition the full court to review his appeal.

Toledo is accused of taking $20 million in bribes from Odebrecht, a giant Brazilian construction company that has admitted to US authorities that it bribed officials to win contracts throughout Latin America for decades.

Toledo is one of four of Peru's ex-presidents implicated in the corruption scandal.

He denies the charges.

The judge in the extradition case, Thomas Hixson, ordered Toledo to turn himself over to US marshals Friday after a three-judge appeals court panel this week denied his appeal to stop his extradition.

But Hixson reversed his order after Toledo's last-ditch effort was granted.

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