These are part of the 190 million dollars with which the company must compensate Peru for four projects that it acknowledged having obtained with illicit payments.
Peru collected another 22 million soles (5.5 million dollars) on Tuesday as part of the civil compensation that the Brazilian company Odebrecht must pay in favor of the Peruvian State, the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights reported.
An official statement detailed that the payment was made with funds from the Retention and Repair Trust (FIRR), in accordance with the annual installment schedule established in the Benefit Agreement and effective collaboration signed by Odebrecht with the special team of the Prosecutor’s Office and the Attorney General’s Office. of the Lava Jato case in Peru, which was approved by a court ruling.
The payment of this third installment is in addition to another 22 million soles (5.5 million dollars) already collected in 2020 and 80 million soles (20 million dollars) that Odebrecht paid in 2019.
Those 124 million soles (31 million dollars) are part of the 760 million soles (190 million dollars) with which the Brazilian company must compensate Peru for four projects that it acknowledged having obtained in the country with illicit payments.
These are the South Interoceanic Highway (Sections 2 and 3), Line 1 of the Lima Metro (Sections 1 and 2), the Vía de Evitamiento del Cusco and the Vía Costa Verde, in the section of the Callao port of Lima.
In the Odebrecht case in Peru, the former presidents Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006), Ollanta Humala (2011-2016) and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016-2018), as well as the late Alan García (2006-2011) and the leader opponent Keiko Fujimori, as well as other representatives of the country’s political and business class.
Five years after this great corruption plot was revealed on a global scale, in Peru it is still expected that the Justice will determine responsibilities in an investigation that had a great impact due to the relentless and rapid action of the Prosecutor’s Office, which, however, was slowed down due to the arrival of the pandemic.
So far, in Peru there is only one judicial decision in the investigation followed by Humala and his wife, Nadine Heredia, for whom the Prosecutor’s Office has requested 20 and 26 and a half years in prison, respectively, and in November a writ of prosecution.
The couple, who will be prosecuted for the alleged irregular contribution of Odebrecht and the Government of Venezuela to their 2006 and 2011 electoral campaigns, is also being investigated for the alleged irregular concession of the South Peruvian Gas Pipeline to a consortium led by Odebrecht in 2014.
In the Toledo case, his extradition to Peru was endorsed at the end of last September by a United States judge for being implicated in the alleged receipt of a bribe of some 35 million dollars to facilitate the company’s business in the country.
The case took on tragic overtones in April 2019, when García committed suicide to avoid being detained by a prosecutorial order, while Kuczynski was forced to resign in 2018 due to his ties to the company and has been under house arrest ever since.
The other major implicated is the three-time presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori, for whom the Prosecutor’s Office has requested 30 years in prison after accusing her of having received irregular money from Odebrecht for her 2011 and 2016 campaigns, but a judicial decision is still awaited on whether to opens oral trial for this case. (I)
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