LIMA (Reuters) -A Peruvian judge ordered the pre-trial detention for former president Martin Vizcarra on Wednesday for allegedly taking bribes while he was governor more than a decade ago.

At the hearing, Judge Jorge Chavez ordered Vizcarra to be held for five months, making him the fifth former Peruvian president to be jailed in recent years.

Vizcarra is accused of taking bribes equivalent to $640,000 from construction companies in exchange for public works in the Moquegua region between 2011 and 2014.

Vizcarra is now likely headed to a police base in Lima specially built to house former presidents.

The prison is already busy, with former Presidents Alejandro Toledo, Ollanta Humala and Pedro Castillo currently held there. Its first inmate was former President Alberto Fujimori, who was

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