Angel Rondon, lead suspect in the US$92 million Odebrecht case, feels state prosecutors no longer have a case against him. Rondón has insisted the funds received were for services rendered to the company.
“Those they say I bribed are no longer plaintiffs in the case that has been filed,” he told the press prior to the start of the Odebrecht hearing on Wednesday, 23 January 2019. “They are going to have to identify those I supposedly bribed in Hacienda, in the Budget Office and in the Executive Office,” he said when arriving to the Supreme Court of Justice for the hearing before Supreme Court of Justice special instruction judge, Alejandro Vargas.
The Attorney General Office has presented accusations for the US$92 million bribe to seven. These are: Angel Rondón Rijo, who served as commercial representative for Odebrecht in the Dominican Republic; former Public Works Minister Víctor Díaz Rúa; former presidents of the Senate Andrés Bautista and Jesús Vásquez; lawyer Conrado Pittaluga, senator Tommy Galán Grullón, and former director of the National Institute of Potable Water and Sewage, Roberto Rodríguez.
In his remarks to the press prior to the start of the hearing, Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez told reporters: “The citizens and we also hope that the judges will do justice with all the evidence they have in their hands.”
The case continues on 24 January 2019 at the Supreme Court of Justice.
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24 January 2019
