Ex-Peru president, wife leave prison preventative detention
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Former Peruvian President Ollanta Humala and his wife have left prison four days after a court ruled they could not be detained further while prosecutors investigate their alleged involvement in multimillion-dollar kickback schemes.
On Monday, they walked out of the separate prisons where they had been held since last July under suspicion of taking money from Odebrecht, the Brazil-based multinational construction giant that has admitted paying bribes to officials across Latin America.
Humala has called the accusation baseless. He finished his presidential term in 2016.
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Prosecutors have not filed any formal charges against the couple, and Peru's Constitutional Court last Thursday vacated an 18-month preventative detention order. It ruled the detention failed to comply with due process laws, but said the investigation can continue.