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| Israel bars Peru's fugitive ex-leader Alejandro Toledo | |
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| Israel says Peru's fugitive former President Alejandro Toledo, wanted on corruption charges, will not be allowed to enter the country. | |
| His arrest was requested in Peru last week over allegations he took $20m (£16m) in bribes. He denies wrongdoing. | |
| The ex-leader was believed to be in San Francisco and possibly on a flight set to land in Israel. However, it was unclear whether he had boarded. | |
| Officials in Peru have offered a reward for information leading to his capture. | |
| Mr Toledo, who governed from 2001 to 2006, is accused of receiving money from Brazilian building firm Odebrecht in return for a contract to build stretches of a highway linking Peru and Brazil. | |
| He is a visiting professor at Stanford University, near San Francisco, and his wife, Eliane Karp, has Israeli citizenship. | |
| Israel's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Mr Toledo would not be allowed entry in the country before "his affairs in Peru are settled." | |
| Odebrecht is at the centre of a multi-national corruption scandal. It admitted, as part of a plea deal with the US justice department, to paying nearly $800m (£640m) in bribes to governments across Latin America. | |
| The company said it paid $29m in Peru to secure contracts between 2005 and 2014. | |
| That time spans the presidencies of Mr Toledo and his two successors in office, Alan Garcia and Ollanta Humala, who have also denied any wrongdoing. | |
| Peru said Interpol issued a red alert to 190 member countries to help find him, but Mr Toledo did not appear on its list of wanted persons. | |
| The current president of Peru, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, has urged him to return to the country to face questioning. |