Odebrecht has paid S/233 million of the S/760 million in compensation to the Peruvian State

The Government of Peru has so far received S/233 million (about US$62.9 million) of the S/760 million total compensation that the Brazilian company Odebrecht must pay for acts of corruption, the Ministry of Justice reported this Friday. and Human Rights (Minjus).

The ministry indicated in a statement that it charged another S/22 million for the fifth installment of civil reparation, which is made with funds from the Retention and Reparation Trust (FIRR) established within the framework of Law 30737, which ensures immediate payment of civil reparation in favor of the Peruvian State in cases of corruption and related crimes.

Furthermore, it was done in accordance with the schedule of annual installments established in the Benefits and Effective Collaboration Agreement, signed by Odebrecht with the Special Team of the Public Ministry and the ad hoc Prosecutor’s Office of the Lava Jato case in Peru, which was approved by a court ruling. .

The agreement established that Odebrecht must compensate the Peruvian State with a total of US$760 million for four projects in which the company admitted having made illicit payments to obtain the tenders.

These projects are the Southern Interoceanic Highway, Sections 2 and 3, Line 1 of the Lima Metro, Sections 1 and 2, the Cuzco Avoidance Route and the Costa Verde Highway, in the Callao Section. The Minjus detailed that this fifth installment has been added to another S/211 million already collected until 2022 from Odebrecht.

Odebrecht: four presidents and one candidate in Peru

Peru was one of the main protagonists of the great Odebrecht corruption plot in Latin America, especially because it involved several of its presidents since the beginning of this century.

The case has among its defendants Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006), Ollanta Humala (2011-2016) and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016-2018), in addition to having included Alan García (2006-2011), who died in April 2019.

The plot also reached politicians such as Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of imprisoned former president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) and leader of the right-wing Fuerza Popular party, who will be prosecuted for the alleged irregular financing of her 2011 and 2016 electoral campaigns.

Odebrecht agreed to collaborate with the Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office in 2018, although that agreement was paralyzed in November of last year by the Brazilian Justice in response to a lawsuit from the company, which denounced the violation of the deal by the Peruvian authorities.

Although it was resumed in December, in January a Brazilian court provisionally suspended it again in the trial against Humala, after he alleged a violation of his right to defense.