Peru jails ex-president Humala for 15 years over money laundering | Corruption News

Judges also order jailing of Nadine Heredia, Humala’s wife, in the same case but she flees to Brazil with her son.

A court in Peru has sentenced former President Ollanta Humala and his wife, Nadine Heredia, to 15 years in prison for laundering $3m received from Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht and $200,000 from the government of then-Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Humala, 62, was taken into custody after the verdict was delivered on Tuesday and later jailed at a police station, but…