FAB plane brought Nadine Heredia to Brazil 1 day after she was sentenced to 15 years in prison by Peruvian justice
The Ministry of Defense confirmed this Friday (14.Nov.2025) that the president’s government (PT) spent R$345,013.56 on the operation that brought the former first lady of Peru Nadine Heredia to Brazil. The information was sent in response to a request presented by the leader of Novo in the Chamber, (Novo-RS). Here’s the (PDF – 646 kB).
The document provides specific data about the mission conducted by the (Brazilian Air Force), including the aircraft type, crew composition and complete itinerary. The text also confirms that the flight was authorized through a letter from the MRE (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and that there was no prior cost estimate before carrying out the mission.
UNDERSTAND THE CASE
The former first lady of Peru arrived in Brasília on April 16, 2025, on a FAB (Brazilian Air Force) plane, after Brazil had . She and her husband, former president Ollanta Humala (2011-2016), were sentenced by Peruvian courts to 15 years in prison for money laundering during the 2011 election campaign.
The illicit resources would have come from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht — now called Novonor. Both deny the accusations. The trial took 3 years. During this period, the former president of Peru maintained the thesis of political persecution. Humala and Heredia can appeal the sentence, but the prison sentence is already in effect.
According to the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the decision to grant asylum was taken based on the decision signed in Caracas in 1954, of which both Brazil and Peru are signatories.
In , in May, Brazilian Chancellor Mauro Vieira stated that asylum was granted by “humanitarian bases” and that it was a decision “procedural and sovereign”. The minister cited Heredia’s recent surgery and the fact that she has a minor son who would be “unassisted”. He also stated that it was not up to “discussion of merit given the condition of humanitarian urgency”.
awarded to former South American political leaders. He cited former presidents Raúl Cubas (1999), received by the then President of the Republic Fernando Henrique Cardoso, and Alfredo Stroessner (1989), received by José Sarney. Cubas arrived in Brazil on a Brazilian Air Force plane. Stroessner boarded a plane chartered by the Paraguayan government.
O minister also cited as examples o asylum granted for the Mexico to the ex-president boliviano Evo Morales em 2019 e for the Spain to the opponent Venezuelan Edmundo González em 2024. Second Vieira, em both os cases, o transfer of the asylees he was carried out for the country what granted o asylum.
