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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Luc Cohen and Marcelo Rochabrun

U.S. to return to Peru funds seized from ex-president in Odebrecht case

FILE PHOTO: Peru's presidential candidate and former President Alejandro Toledo speaks during his closing campaign rally in Lima April 7, 2011. Leftist Ollanta Humala is forecast to win the the first round of Peru's tight presidential election on Sunday and face right-winger Keiko Fujimori in a run-off, two new polls showed on Thursday. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil

The United States will return to Peru about $686,000 seized from a former president of the country who had received bribes from the Brazilian construction conglomerate Odebrecht, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday.

Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn said Odebrecht paid $25 million in bribes to Alejandro Toledo, who was Peru's president between 2001 and 2006, for highway construction contracts.

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