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Perus former president, Ollanta Humala, has been found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to 15 years in prison.A court in the capital, Lima, said that Humala had accepted illegal funds from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht to bankroll his election campaigns in 2006 and 2011.His wife, Nadine Heredia, who co-founded the Nationalist Party with Humala, was also found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to 15 years.Heredia was granted asylum by Brazil and will have safe passage to travel there with her son, Perus foreign ministry said.Prosecutors had asked that Humala be sentenced to 20 years in jail and Heredia to 26 and a half years.After a trial lasting more than three years, the court gave its long-awaited verdict on Tuesday.Humala attended the verdict in person while his wife heard it via video link.The 62-year-old former president and his wife had denied any wrongdoing.Who is Ollanta Humala?Humala, a former army officer who fought against the Maoist Shining Path rebels, first came to national prominence in 2000 when he led a short-lived military rebellion against then-President Alberto Fujimori.In 2006, he ran for president.
He allied himself with the Venezuelan president at the time, Hugo Chvez, and prosecutors alleged that Humala had accepted illegal funding from Chvez to finance his campaign.His rival for the presidency, Alan Garca, used Humalas close ties to Chvez as a way to attack him, warning voters not to let Peru turn into another Venezuela.In 2011, Humala ran for the presidency again, this time on a more moderate platform.He said that rather than emulating Chvezs socialist revolution in Venezuela, he would model his policies on those of the Brazilian president at the time, Luiz Incio Lula da Silva.His approach proved successful and he defeated his right-wing rival, Keiko Fujimori.But violent social conflicts early on his presidency quickly dented his popularity.He also lost the support of many members of Congress, further weakening his position.His legal troubles started shortly after his term had finished in 2016.That year, the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht confessed to paying hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes to government officials and political parties across Latin America, to win business orders.Prosecutors accused Humala and his wife of receiving millions of dollars from Odebrecht.A year later, a judge ordered that the couple be placed in pre-trial detention.They were released after a year but the investigation into their links with Odebrecht continued, culminating in todays verdict.Source: BBC--Agencies





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