The Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office informed this Friday that senior prosecutor Rafael Vela, who coordinates the Special Team investigating the Lava Jato corruption scheme, has managed to resume legal cooperation with Brazil in the Odebrecht case.
«The reactivation of the International Judicial Cooperation will allow Brazilian witnesses Marcelo Odebrecht, Jorge Barata and others to testify next January 16 and 17 in the oral trial against former President Ollanta Humala and Nadine Heredia, for the 2011 campaign contributions,» the Public Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.
In this sense, the Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office has indicated that the Special Team of Lava Jato «will resume the pending proceedings, declarations and decoding of codinomes (pseudonyms of the implicated persons) on the dates that the Brazilian justice system indicates».
The Odebrecht case is the main case derived from the mediatic Operation Lava Jato, which broke out in Brazil, and which subsequently implicated the construction company in an international network, with which it had established corruption at the institutional level in more than a dozen Latin American countries, with implicated parties such as the elected Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, or the Paraguayan Horacio Cartes.
After Brazil, Peru is the country where the scandal has gained the most strength. So much so that the country’s most recent presidents — Alejandro Toledo, Ollanta Humala and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski — are being investigated for their alleged links to the scheme, not to mention Alan García, who committed suicide in 2019 when he was about to be arrested by the police.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
