means that Peru now has a quartet of former presidents in prison, with four coinciding —some serving ongoing sentences and others immersed in active judicial proceedings due to alleged corruption cases.
According to the Public Ministry (Prosecutor's Office), part of the money may have been received in 2016, when Vizcarra was already Transportation and Communications Ministry and Vice-President of Peru during Kuczynski's presidential term.
Vizcarra succeeded Kuczynski in March 2018, when investigations against PPK (as the former president is known) began. At that time, Kuczynski resigned from office amid a coming impeachment vote. Meanwhile, Vizcarra was impeached and removed from office in November 2020.
Toledo and Humala
Currently, 79-year-old Toledo is facing a second trial for money laundering from prison.
Previously, the Nationalist Party leader had already spent 15 months in preventive detention at Barbadillo Prison, located within the Peruvian National Police's Special Operations Directorate (Diroes) headquarters.
There, he spent nine months between 2017 and 2018, during which time he coincided in prison with Fujimori.
At the same time, 63-year-old Humala faces a new request from the Prosecutor's Office seeking a 35-year prison sentence for the alleged commission of the offenses of criminal association and money laundering, in this case related to the purported irregular bidding of Peru's Southern Gas Pipeline, which was awarded to Odebrecht.
In turn, Castillo has been in preventive detention since the end of 2022, when on December 7 he was arrested minutes after attempting a failed coup d'état, as Congress was preparing to process an impeachment motion (presidential removal) against him following signs of corruption in his government.