PhotoLIMA, Peru — Peru’s attorney general said Tuesday that he would issue an arrest warrant for former President Alejandro Toledo, the latest Latin American leader laid low by a corruption scandal spreading across the region. Attorney General Pablo Sánchez “will request the precautionary imprisonment” of Mr. Toledo, said Hamilton Castro, the prosecutor leading the investigation. Mr. Toledo has previously denied any wrongdoing. “Say when, how and where and in what bank they’ve given me $20 million,” Mr. Toledo said in a radio interview over the weekend. Mr. Toledo, who earned a reputation for fighting his way out of poverty, was Peru’s president from 2001 to 2006.

Source: New York Times February 07, 2017 21:29 UTC