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Peruvian former President Alejandro Toledo attends a court session where the judge will rule in his corruption case in Lima, Peru, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)

Peru’s ex-president gets more than 20 years in prison in case linked to corruption scandal

By Franklin Briceno and Regina Garcia Cano - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2020 file photo, Brazilian former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva arrives for a meeting with the Italian Cgil union, in Rome. Prosecutors in Brazil’s sprawling Car Wash corruption investigation on Monday, Sept. 24, charged former the former President with money laundering, less than a year after the country’s top court ordered him freed from jail while he appealed his conviction in another case. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Brazil’s da Silva faces new charge of money laundering

By MARCELO SOUSA - Associated Press

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his daily, morning news conference at the presidential palace, Palacio Nacional, in Mexico City, Monday, July 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico president says video shows ‘regime of corruption’

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2017 file photo, Emilio Lozoya, former head of Mexico's state-owned oil company Pemex, gives a press conference in Mexico City. On Feb 2020, Spanish police arrested Lozoya in southern Spain. Mexico had been pursuing Lozoya through Europe for months over allegations of an illegal contract while he was at Pemex. (AP Photo/Gustavo Martinez Contreras, File)

Mexico probing alleged bribes in ex-president’s campaign

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FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2019 file photo, Peru's President Martin Vizcarra smiles after the swearing-in ceremony of his new cabinet at the government palace in Lima, Peru. On July 28, 2020, the anniversary of independence, Vizcarra tried in a televised speech to galvanize a country battered, like so many others around the world, by economic calamity and mass death from the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

New crisis in Peru as Congress rejects president’s Cabinet

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2017 file photo, Emilio Lozoya, former head of Mexico's state-owned oil company Pemex, gives a press conference in Mexico City. Lozoya, who was arrested in February 2020 by Spanish police on an international warrant issued by Mexico, has dropped his extradition fight and agreed to return to Mexico to cooperate in corruption investigations, according to Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero on Tuesday, June 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Gustavo Martinez Contreras, File)

1st hearing in ‘watershed’ graft case of Mexico oil chief

By MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2017 file photo, Emilio Lozoya, former head of Mexico's state-owned oil company Pemex, gives a press conference in Mexico City. On Feb 2020, Spanish police arrested Lozoya in southern Spain. Mexico had been pursuing Lozoya through Europe for months over allegations of an illegal contract while he was at Pemex. (AP Photo/Gustavo Martinez Contreras, File)

Mexico attorney general says case of ex-oil chief ‘symbolic’

By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2015 file photo, Emilio Lozoya, CEO of Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), attends a meeting in Paris, France. The former head of Mexico's state oil company was arrested Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020 in Spain on a international warrant issued by Mexico, authorities in both countries said. Mexico issued international arrest warrants against Lozoya in 2019 as a result of corruption investigations, including into his alleged ties to Odebrecht, the Brazilian construction company that secured contracts across Latin America through a network of bribes. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon, File)

Spanish court keeps former Mexican oil chief in detention

By CIARAN GILES and MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori, and leader of the opposition party, center, with her husband Mark Vito Villanela, left, arrive to vote during congressional elections in Lima, Peru, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020. Peruvians are voting to elect 130 new members of the congress that will legislate for only one year in place of the congress that was dissolved by president Martin Vizacarra in September 2019. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

AP Explains: The arrest of Peru powerbroker Keiko Fujimori

By MANUEL RUEDA and FRANK BRICENO - Associated Press

Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori and opposition leader is escorted by police in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020. In a court session a judge decided she must return to preventive detention pending a corruption investigation. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Peru judge orders detention for Fujimori during graft probe

By Franklin Briceño - Associated Press

Brazil building giant fires former CEO Marcelo Odebrecht

By DAVID BILLER and DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press

In this handout photo provided by Peru's Palace of Justice Press Office, former Prime Minister Cesar Villanueva is escorted by police to a courtroom, at the Palace of Justice in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019. Villanueva was placed under preventive detention while being investigated for influence peddling in a bribery case linked to the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, the Public Ministry said Wednesday. (Francisco Medina/Peru's Palace of Justice press office via AP)

Ex-Peruvian prime minister detained in Odebrecht case

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US authorities arrest Brazilian ex-CEO in bribery case

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FILE - This April 12, 2018 file photo, shows the Odebrecht headquarters in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Swiss prosecutors filed on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, their first indictment in investigations related to the Brazilian construction company and state-run oil giant Petrobras, charging a suspect with complicity in the bribery of foreign public officials and with money laundering. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

Swiss file their 1st charges in Petrobras-Odebrecht scandal

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Brazil state bank seeks liquidation of Odebrecht

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Supporters of Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra gather outside Congress after Vizcarra dissolved the legislature in Lima, Peru, Monday, Sept. 30, 2019. Opposition legislators defied the president's order dissolving congress and have voted to suspend him from office. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Peru thrown into constitutional crisis amid power struggle

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO and CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

Pedestrians walking past stop spontaneously to shout at lawmakers outside Congress, in Lima, Peru, Monday, Sept. 30, 2019. The political duel between Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra and Congress intensified in recent weeks after lawmakers decided to shelve Vizcarra's proposal to hold early presidential and congressional elections, which he argues is necessary to break the deadlock and stabilize the nation. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Peru president dissolves congress amid anti-corruption push

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO and CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Chilean Michelle Bachelet listens to the media one year after she took office, during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP) ** FILE **

Bachelet denied campaign took money from Brazil OAS company

By EVA VERGARA - Associated Press

Brazil police target brewery CEO in graft case

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

In this April 7, 2011 file photo, then presidential candidate Alejandro Toledo takes part in a campaign rally in Lima, Peru. The Peruvian public prosecutor's office said Tuesday, July 16, 2019, that the Toledo the former president was arrested in the United States where he currently resides, on an extradition order requested by Peru to stand trial for a corruption case involving Brazilian construction company Odebrecht. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Alejandro Toledo, ex-Peru president, arrested in U.S.

By Franklin Briceno - Associated Press