As happened yesterday, Peruvian prosecutors also waited in vain today for former Odebrecht executives to coordinate their statements in the money laundering trial against the former president. Ollanta Humala and his wife Nadine Heredia.
Peru21 He learned that the Lava Jato special team, led by prosecutor Rafael Vela, drew up a report in which he reported the absence of the former executives to the Peruvian consulate located in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Among those who should attend are the former boss of the construction company, Marcelo Odebrecht, and the former representative of the firm in Peru, Jorge Barata. His statements at the trial were scheduled for Monday, November 7 and Tuesday, November 8, respectively.
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Both characters declared before the Prosecutor’s Office that the construction company gave US$3 million to the 2011 humalist campaign at the request of the Workers’ Party led by today’s re-elected president of Brazil, Lula da Silva. These statements must be ratified before the judges who will issue a sentence in the case.
However, these obstacles are presented with the request that Odebrecht made to the Brazilian Prosecutor’s Office to suspend the delivery of information to the Peruvian authorities, alleging non-compliance with the effective collaboration agreement. Prosecutor Vela said in an interview with this newspaper that there was no violation of the signed contract.
On Monday, November 7, and in this scenario, the prosecutor Germán Juárez must inform the courtroom chaired by Judge Nayko Coronado if he will reschedule the procedure with the former directors or if he will definitively dispense with their testimonies to continue with the trial.
