Doomed to 15 years in prison for corruption scandal, his former first lady Peru Nadin Eredia abandoned the country and reached the Brazil after she was granted asylum by the Lula government.
Former President of Pero Oyea Umala (2011-2016) and his wife were found guilty Tuesday for illegal funding of $ 3 million, secured for the 2011 election campaign by the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht.
According to the indictment, the then Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez with about $ 200,000 had been reinforced by the Umalas election campaign in 2006.
Also sentenced to 15 years in prison, Umala was arrested and taken to prison. However, his wife fled with her sunny son to the Brazilian Embassy, where she sought asylum, the Peruvian Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday night.
Following consultations with the Lula government, Nadin Eredia and her child boarded a Brazilian military aircraft carrying them to Brasilia. They will then go to Sao Paulo, as her lawyer announced.
62 -year -old Oyea Umala is the second former president of Peru to be sentenced by the four involved in the Oderbrecht scandal, which has led dozens of politicians and businessmen in Latin America to prison.
The Brazilian construction colossus distributed a total of $ 788 million in ten Latin American countries to secure public contracts, according to the US Department of Justice.