{"id":126056,"date":"2019-05-09T20:33:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T20:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=126056"},"modified":"2019-05-10T23:54:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T23:54:34","slug":"state-prosecutors-ready-for-next-phase-of-odebrecht-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/05\/09\/state-prosecutors-ready-for-next-phase-of-odebrecht-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"State prosecutors ready for next phase of Odebrecht trial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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State prosecutors asked for the commencement of substantive proceedings against the seven accused by the Attorney General Office of accepting US$92 million in bribes from the Odebrecht construction firm. The Attorney General has signed an agreement with Odebrecht in which the latter agreed to pay a US$184 million fine over an eight-year period for its part in the bribery scheme. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judge Francisco Ortega Polanco says he will announce on 21 June 2019 his decision as to whether there is sufficient evidence for the case to be heard or orders the case to be closed. Defense lawyers have argued the prosecutors have not presented evidence that can be used against their defendants in a court case. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Supreme Court of Justice case is preparing the case against the seven. These are former Odebrecht representative \u00c1ngel Rond\u00f3n Rijo, former Minister of Public Works V\u00edctor D\u00edaz R\u00faa, legal counsel to D\u00edaz Rua, Conrado Enrique Pittaluga Arzeno, former senators Porfirio Andr\u00e9s Bautista Garc\u00eda and Jes\u00fas Antonio V\u00e1squez Mart\u00ednez, senator Tommy Alberto Gal\u00e1n Grull\u00f3n, former National Aqueduct (Inapa) director Juan Roberto Rodr\u00edguez Hern\u00e1ndez, is being heard by the Supreme Court of Justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The case resumes after the SCJ did not accept a recusal of the judge petitioned by the lawyers of Conrado Pittaluga on 22 April 2019. The lawyers petitioned the recusal after the judge refused a request to order the telecom company to share information on the taping of a telephone of one of the sons of the accused who is part of his defense counsel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the past two weeks, the main defendant in the case, Rond\u00f3n, has been active in local radio and TV talk shows presenting his position that there is no evidence for the case to be tried. He argues that it is just politics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rond\u00f3n says he was never a middleman for Odebecht. He has said the payments he has received were for his services as the Brazilian construction company\u2019s representative in the country. The US Department of the Treasury in 2017 ordered the removal of the US visa and blocking of property of Rond\u00f3n and several relatives for serious corruption as under the Global Magnitsky Executive Order recourse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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State prosecutors asked for the commencement of substantive proceedings against the seven accused by the Attorney General Office of accepting US$92 million in bribes from the Odebrecht construction firm. The Attorney General has signed an agreement with Odebrecht in which the latter agreed to pay a US$184 million fine over an eight-year period for its … <\/p>\n

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