{"id":152027,"date":"2021-01-11T06:20:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T10:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=152027"},"modified":"2021-01-11T11:42:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T15:42:43","slug":"brazilian-witness-names-bribes-middlemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/01\/11\/brazilian-witness-names-bribes-middlemen\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian witness names bribes middlemen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"322\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Mauricio-Dantas-Bezerra-El-Nuevo-Diario-e1610379745713.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-152091\"\/><figcaption>Mauricio Dantas Bezerra \/ El Nuevo Diario<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The US$92 million bribes scandal resumed on Friday in Santo Domingo. The case is being televised and streamed but on Friday, 8 January 2021, the testimony of Mauricio Dantas Bezerra, the Odebrecht construction firm legal officer who signed the US$184 million penalty deal with the Dominican government, was not aired at a request of the defendants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listin Diario reports that Bezerra said Odebrecht commercial representative Angel Rond\u00f3n, lawyer Conrado Pittaluga and former Minister of Public Works V\u00edctor D\u00edaz R\u00faa received the bribes. A US court determined Odebrecht paid bribes for US$92 million to obtain government construction contracts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The executive added that Odebrecht used a scheme of &#8220;offshore accounts,&#8221; such as Consultora del Sur and Landfield, through which payments were made on behalf of the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Attorney General Office says that Odebrecht operated its bribes division in the Dominican Republic from 2015 to 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to Dantas Bezerra, other Brazilian Odebrecht officers that will testify are: Rodrigo Maluf Cardoso and Marcelo Hofkke, who head the company in the DR since 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trial resumes on Monday, 11 January 2021 at 9am. Bezerra is expected to continue with his testimony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2021\/01\/10\/651736\/las-interrupciones-de-la-defensa-durante-el-testimonio-de-dantas-bezerra-el-testigo-clave-en-odebrecht\">Listin Diario<\/a><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2021\/01\/10\/651764\/los-testigos-maluf-cardoso-y-marcelo-hofkke-completaran-el-trio-estrella-en-caso-odebrecht\">Listin Diario <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2021\/01\/11\/651887\/testigos-brasilenos-siguen-hoy-con-declaraciones-en-juicio-odebrecht\">Listin Diario<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/somospueblo.com\/testigo-brasileno-declara-sobornos-se-pagaban-a-traves-de-angel-rondon-y-conrado-pittaluga\/\">Somos Pueblo <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 January 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US$92 million bribes scandal resumed on Friday in Santo Domingo. The case is being televised and streamed but on Friday, 8 January 2021, the testimony of Mauricio Dantas Bezerra, the Odebrecht construction firm legal officer who signed the US$184 million penalty deal with the Dominican government, was not aired at a request of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/01\/11\/brazilian-witness-names-bribes-middlemen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152027"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152093,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152027\/revisions\/152093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}