Economist Andrés Dauhajre states that the payments made by Odebrecht, the Brazilian construction company, to his company, Baker Street Financial, were for his professional services. He said that at the time he provided these services, he was not a public servant nor had he been for the past 18 years. He said that nothing prevented him from offering consultancy services to a global construction company.
Dauhajre explained that in January 2014, two months after the bidding process had come to an end, Odebrecht executives asked him for financial consultancy to put together options for the restructuring of the original financing agreement that the Odebrecht-Technimont-Estrella (OTE) consortium had presented during the bidding process. The contract for his services was signed at the end of January 2014, and he provided the consultancy during that year and in 2015.
He made the comments in response to the findings presented by Alicia Ortega in “El Informe con Alicia Ortega” on his company Baker Street Financial is one of the beneficiaries of so-called secret payments made by Odebrecht.
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Listin Diario
2 July 2019