The presiding judge of the First Collegiate Court of the National District, Giselle Perez announced the postponing for 5 October 2020 the restart of the case against the six remaining defendants. These are: Odebrecht commercial representative Angel Rondón, former Public Works Minister Víctor Díaz Rúa; lawyer Conrado Pittaluga; former PLD senator Tommy Galán; former PRD senator Andrés Bautista García; and the former director of the National Potable Water and Sewage Institute (Inapa) Roberto Rodríguez.
The court delayed the hearings to give time to process the definitive files for in favor of another eight people that had been involved in the case as handled under former Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez. Last week, the new director of the Administrative Corruption Prosecution Office (Pepca), Wilson Camacho said that the former Attorney General Office had definitively filed the Odebrecht case against Temistoclés Montás, Julio César Valentín, Alfredo Pacheco, Rudy González, César Sánchez, Bernardo Castellanos, Máximo De Óleo and Radhamés Segura.
The men were also accused of participating in the US$92 million scheme of bribes from 2003 to 2017 to facilitate the awarding of billionaire works to the Brazilian construction company, Odebrecht nationwide.
In a new development, it was announced that Rodolfo Espiñeira Ceballos, is replacing Attorney General Miriam German Brito in handling the Odebrecht case.
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1 October 2020