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Peru's ex-president and first lady sentenced to 15 years jail

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Getty Images Ollanta Humala and his wife Nadine Heredia have been found guilty of money laundering

Peru's former president, Ollanta Humala, has been found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to 15 years in prison. A court in the capital, Lima, said that Humala had accepted illegal funds from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht to bankroll his election campaigns in 2006 and 2011. His wife, Nadine Heredia, who co-founded the Nationalist Party with Humala, was also found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to 15 years. Heredia was granted asylum by Brazil and will have safe passage to travel there with her son, Peru's foreign ministry said.

Prosecutors had asked that Humala be sentenced to 20 years in jail and Heredia to 26 and a half years. After a trial lasting more than three years, the court gave its long-awaited verdict on Tuesday. Humala attended the verdict in person while his wife heard it via video link. The 62-year-old former president and his wife had denied any wrongdoing.

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