Peru's Ex-President Kuczynski Detained in Odebrecht Graft Probe
- Former leader will be held as his Lima home is searched
- Wall Street veteran resigned last year on eve of impeachment
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in 2017.
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A Peruvian court ordered the detention of former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski for 10 days as part of a vast graft probe centered on Odebrecht SA, the troubled Brazilian construction giant.
Kuczynski was escorted by police from his home in Lima’s San Isidro district Wednesday after the court ordered that he be detained along with two former employees. He was taken into a clinic in downtown Lima to undergo medical checks, according to a video posted on Twitter by the attorney general’s office.