A court in Peru has sentenced former President Alejandro Toledo to 20 years and six months in prison for corruption and money laundering.

Axar.az reports that , citing BBC, Prosecutors allege that he accepted $35 million (£27 million) in bribes from a Brazilian construction firm awarded a contract to construct a road in southern Peru.

Toledo, who served as president from 2001 to 2006, was arrested five years ago in California, where he had lived and worked for an extended period, and was extradited to Peru last year.

The Brazilian company Odebrecht has acknowledged paying millions in bribes to officials throughout Latin America and the US to secure government contracts.