Overview
- Toledo signed a letter on June 24 authorizing his lawyer Carlos Torres Caro to prepare a request for an indulto humanitario that cites his grave health condition.
- The defense says it has multiple medical certificates documenting cognitive decline, advanced depression and high risk of stroke, heart attack and arrhythmia to support the petition.
- Lawyers plan to base the request on Law 32181, which allows people over 80 to seek to serve sentences outside prison with judicial authorization, and to submit or prioritize the filing after the new president takes office on July 28.
- Toledo is serving two confirmed sentences — a 20-year, 6-month term in the Odebrecht case and a 13-year, 4-month term in the Ecoteva case — and is detained at Barbadillo prison in Ate; a prior attempt to use Law 32181 was denied because his sentence was not final.
- The defense continues to assert Toledo’s innocence and says it has new evidence about the contested funds, a development that could increase judicial and political scrutiny of any pardon request under the incoming administration.