Former Peru's President Alejandro Toledo and his wife Eliane Karp arrives to the 2015 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings in Lima, Peru, October 8, 2015. REUTERS/Guadalupe Pardo
LIMA (Reuters) - The Peruvian attorney general's office accused former president Alejandro Toledo on Friday of taking bribes from Brazilian construction firm Camargo Correa SA in exchange for a lucrative highway contract during his 2001-2006 term.
An unnamed state's witness had helped uncover evidence that showed some $3.98 million (£2.98 million) in payments Camargo made to Toledo through offshore bank accounts controlled by one of Toledo's associates, the attorney general's office said in an emailed statement.
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