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U.S. grants ex-President Toledo freedom on US$1 million bail at times of coronavirus

Photo: EFE

Photo: EFE

14:27 | San Francisco (U.S.), Mar. 19.

The United States Justice on Thursday decided to release former President of Peru Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006) on bail worth US$1 million —after having denied it twice— considering that the circumstances have changed due to the coronavirus pandemic, which poses a risk to his health.

The EFE agency reported that —in an extraordinary hearing held by phone— Judge Thomas Hixson of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ordered that Toledo be released and immediately confined to his home in the San Francisco Bay Area (where there is a mandatory confinement order) under a GPS surveillance system.

Toledo will leave the Maguire Prison in San Mateo County once his relatives and friends post a bond of $500,000 in cash, and his wife Eliane Karp turns over the passport to authorities.

Although the initial amount to get out of jail is $500,000, the total stands at US$1 million. The other half will be provided by acquaintances with real estate properties based in the United States. That process can take several weeks.


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Publicado: 19/3/2020