After a Peruvian court sentenced her and her husband, former President Ollanta Humala, to 15 years in jail on money laundering allegations, former First Lady Nadine Heredia escaped to Brazil, where she was given diplomatic shelter. Julio Espinoza, her attorney, told CNN that she and her kid arrived in Brasilia on Wednesday.
The Peruvian Foreign Ministry said she had applied for refuge at the Brazilian Embassy in Lima on Tuesday morning. According to the statement, the Peruvian authorities assured her and her son of their safe travel, and Brazil gave them refuge.
According to Heredia’s attorney, she asked for asylum for an undisclosed familial cause. He stated that he just learnt about her asylum request through the media and that “a family and personal decision happened about two to three hours before the sentencing. She and her husband were sentenced in a trial over suspected illegal payments to Humala’s 2006 and 2011 presidential campaigns, and she arrived in Brazil barely one day after that.
Prosecutors had claimed that the Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht and the Venezuelan government had illegally contributed to Humala’s Nationalist Party to fund his campaigns. Humala and his wife had denied any misconduct.
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