A United States federal court on Wednesday denied former Peru President Alejandro Toledo Manrique’s appeal to stop his extradition to his native country to face charges he accepted millions of dollars in bribes from a Brazilian company.
Toledo, 77, had filed for a stay on his extradition pending a legal challenge to the U.S. State Department's decision to send him back to Peru, where he is accused of taking $20 million in bribes from Odebrecht, a construction giant.
