Former Peruvian president Toledo arrested in U.S.

Former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo has been arrested in the United States, the attorney general's office in Peru informed on Tuesday.

"The attorney general's office ... reports that the former president Alejandro Toledo Manrique was arrested this morning in the United States over an extradition request (by Peru)," the attorney general's office wrote on its official Twitter account.

Toledo, who is in the United States since 2017, is wanted in his home country on corruption charges.

The former president allegedly took bribes from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht in exchange for contracts involving the construction of the Interoceanic Highway.

(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)