Supreme Court judge Francisco Ortega continued on Monday, 28 January 2019, with the preliminary hearings for those accused in the Odebrecht bribe scandal. The Specialized Prosecution Service for the Persecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca) presented the case against senator Tommy Galan and Roberto Rodriguez, former administrator of the National Aqueduct and Sewage Institute (INAPA).
The prosecutors accused the defendants of hiding assets in order not to show their receipt of bribes.
The accused in the Odebrecht case are businessman Ángel Rondón; former Minister of Public Works Víctor Díaz Rúa; former president of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), Andrés Bautista; former PRM Senator Jesús Vásquez; Senator Tommy Galán; lawyer Conrado Pittaluga and the former director the National Institute of Acueducts and Sewage, (Inapa), Roberto Rodríguez.
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El Dia
29 January 2019
