The retrial of the US$92 million Odebrecht bribes case is postponed for Monday, 21 December 2020 to give time for Brazilian witness, lawyer Mauricio Dantas Bezerra to appear in person. Dantas Bezerra had requested to participate in the trial via Zoom, yet this was not accepted by the defendants.
In 2016, in a New York City court, Odebrecht admitted to paying US$92 million in bribes to expedite contract work in the Dominican Republic. Dantas Bezerra was the Brazilian construction company executive who would sign a deal with the Attorney General Office in 2017 committing Odebrecht to pay US$184 million for the damages caused to the Dominican state. Former Attorney General Jean Alain Rodriguez negotiated the deal for the Dominican Republic. It established the Dominican justice would not prosecute the Brazilian construction company executives. A clause indicated that if the Brazilian...
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