:quality(75)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/elcomercio/O7HHIUASCVAWVLY627JEZIBFLM.jpg "Lawyer says Toledo’s cancer diagnosis is not an excuse for his extradition")
The lawyer for former president Alejandro Toledo, Roberto Su, maintained that his sponsor suffers from cancer and takes more than 10 pills a day as part of his treatment, however, he said that this would not be an excuse for his extradition and that his defense goes elsewhere sense.
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“His condition is that of a person convalescing from cancer. He has said it. He is a person who has several accredited diseases with treatments that come from many years. He has quite a history with the California doctors who treat him. Obviously it is appreciated that he is not the Alejandro Toledo of 20 years ago. He is a person whose health is cracked, ”he said in dialogue with RPP.
In this line, he maintained that his disease has a treatment that makes him consume between 11 and 13 pills daily.
“It is what he uses concurrently and permanently. (But) it is not something that lawyers have used and also does not correspond according to the treaty. The treaty establishes that the Peruvian State can request and has to accompany the elements of conviction that support the requirement, ”he said.
It should be remembered that former President Alejandro Toledo filed an emergency motion before the Columbia Court in order to prevent his arrest and be extradited to Peru after California Judge Thomas Hixson ordered that he surrender tomorrow at 11 am (Peruvian time). to the United States federal police to be detained and placed under arrest with a view to extradition.
The former president is accused of having received a bribe of 35 million dollars from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht to benefit from the bidding for sections 2 and 3 of the Interoceanic highway.
