Peru's Ex-President Jailed Pending Money Laundering Trial
- Judge saw risk of Ollanta Humala seeking to obstruct probe
- Humala and wife allegedly laundered money from Brazil firms
Peru's former President Ollanta Humala and his wife Nadine Heredia .
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Peru’s former President Ollanta Humala and his wife Nadine Heredia spent their first night in prison after a court ruled Thursday they should be jailed pending an investigation into money laundering during two election campaigns.
The couple turned themselves in at a court house in downtown Lima and were transferred to a holding cell after Judge Richard Concepcion ordered 18 months of preventive detention. Concepcion said there were sufficient grounds to believe Humala and his wife would seek to obstruct an ongoing investigation by the Attorney General’s office.