Overview
- Judges found Vizcarra took roughly $640,000 in bribes as Moquegua governor from 2011 to 2014 in exchange for public works contracts.
- His sentence includes immediate imprisonment, a nine-year ban from holding public office and a court-ordered fine.
- Prosecutors and court documents cite payments from construction firms Obrainsa and Contratistas Generales SAT through commissions and staggered transfers.
- Vizcarra denies wrongdoing, calls the verdict “revenge” and says he will appeal the decision.
- He is set to join other former presidents at Lima’s Barbadillo facility, as a separate court a day later sentenced Pedro Castillo to 11 years and five months for conspiracy related to his 2022 bid to dissolve Congress.