Brazil once again suspends cooperation with Peru in the Odebrecht case at the request of Ollanta Humala

Supreme Court of Brazil decided last Tuesday to temporarily suspend the cooperation litigation with Peru in the lawsuit against former President Ollanta Humala in the case debrecht.

This decision was in response to a request for preventive measures submitted by the defense of the former president in the country’s highest court, which argued that the procedures for interrogating former leaders debrecht D OAS due process was not followed by the Peruvian authorities.

“Given the proximity of the actions and the possible loss of rights, the application for a measure of restraint is accepted to determine the suspension of the execution of the application for international cooperation No. high court, according to the portal call.

It should be noted that this is the second time the Brazilian justice system has suspended this cooperation agreement. The first time this happened was last November in response to a lawsuit filed by Novonor, a former debrechtwhich denounced the violation by the Peruvian authorities of an agreement signed between both parties, which includes “the failure to use the evidence presented in Brazilagainst a company in that jurisdiction.

witness’s testimonies

On January 16, the judiciary of our country was going to accept the testimony of Marcelo Odebrecht in the case against the former president. Humala Tasso. According to the portal callthe next hearing will run from 23 to 25 January with the participation of former Odebrecht executives. Jorge Barata, Luis Antonio Mameri and Fernando Migliaccio da Silva.; former director of the OAS Walfredo de Assis Ribeiro and advertisers Waldemir Garreta, Joao Santana D Monica Cunha Moura.

However, the defense of the aforementioned former president pointed out that the request for said testimony “usurped” the authority high courtsince, according to this contention, the request of the Peruvian justice had to be made in the framework of a trial in Brazil, where the judge had to determine whether the said Peruvian request – by means of a Letter of Request – could be granted or not.

“Thus, the central authority, the Ministry of Justice, receives and analyzes the need or not the need for a deliberative decision of this most excellent high court, regardless of the name that the foreign authority has given to your request. Given the need for deliberative proceedings, the request for cooperation will be treated as a letter of request,” the petition reads. Umal Tasso.

The defense of the former president demanded a preventive measure, “annulling the request for cooperation no. 1.00.000.022437/2022-62 from the moment it was submitted to the Federal Ministry of Justice, determining its processing in accordance with the letter rogatory standard”.

However, the Brazilian justice system only suspended consideration of Peru’s request until the claim filed Ollanta Umala.

It is worth recalling that the former president is being prosecuted in Peru on charges of allegedly irregular funding. Nationalist Party during the election campaigns of 2006 and 2011, and if found guilty, can be sentenced to imprisonment for up to 20 years for money laundering.

In addition, he is the first former Peruvian president to stand trial for the Lava Hato scandal, although so do Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006), the late Alan Garcia (2006-2011) and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016). -2018), as well as Keiko Fujimori, the presidential candidate of Peru in three consecutive elections.

Odebrecht signed a cooperation agreement with the Peruvian prosecutor’s office in 2018 to provide information about the bribes it paid to the highest authorities in that country.