Odebrecht case: Prosecutors expect Brazilian Attorney General to review temporary suspension of cooperation

public service reported on Wednesday that he had received Attorney General of Brazil a message about the temporary suspension of legal cooperation with Peru in the Odebrecht case, known the day before from journalistic information and which has not been officially reported until today.

In a statement on its social media, the prosecutor’s office indicated that the temporary suspension was given until “information from the company Novonor (formerly Odebrecht) in the sense that the terms of the accepted agreements would be violated.”

“The document has been submitted to the Law Jato Special Prosecutors Panel for clarifications in line with the comments that gave rise to the suspension, and has been formally forwarded to Brazil”, indicates the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

In this sense, the Peruvian prosecutor argues that “it is expected that, after an official response, the Attorney General’s Office Brazil reconsider the temporary suspension and resume legal cooperation.”

Brazil’s federal government ministry has determined the suspension of a legal cooperation agreement with Peru regarding the Odebrecht case following a request from the company, the news agency reported on Tuesday. EFE.

The decision was made in response to a lawsuit filed by Novonor, a former Odebrechtwhich 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.

The Brazilian authority has ordered “for the time being, to suspend legal cooperation” with Peru until the Peruvian authorities provide further clarifications regarding the “seriousness and veracity of the information” claimed by the company, according to an October prosecution document. 31.

Suspension of the agreement would mean postponing the questioning of several former employees Odebrecht scheduled for November as witnesses in an oral trial against former President Ollanta Humala, who, along with his wife Nadine Heredia, is being prosecuted on charges of alleged irregular funding of the Nationalist Party during the 2006 and 2011 election campaigns and facing a request for 20 years in prison for money laundering.

Humala is the first former Peruvian president to stand trial for the Lava Hato scandal, though Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006), the late Alan Garcia (2006-2011) and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2006-2008), as well as Keiko Fujimori, who He ran for President of Peru three times.

Odebrecht signed a cooperation agreement with Peruvian prosecutors in 2018, in which the company acknowledged cases of corruption and prepared to pay civil damages to the state caused by years of bribes offered to obtain jobs.

Rafael Vela: the agreements were kept

Rafael Vela, prosecutor-coordinator of the Lava Jato team, assured on Tuesday that effective cooperation agreements with the company have always been respected. Odebrecht and stated that they had not yet been notified of the decision taken public service Brazilian.

“There are a number of alleged facts, which we will, of course, explain in due time, rejecting them, because we are sure that in no case have we violated the terms of the current cooperation agreement, conditions of Peruvian and foreign law. Dr. José Domingo Pérez on Thursday last week, that is, before Odebrecht made this request to the Brazilian justice system, conducted the trial in an absolutely normal manner, and in this trial there was no controversy or dissatisfaction or relevant data that we now have to find out in a surprising way, ”said the prosecutor. Things as they are from RPP news.

Rafael Vela pointed out that among the reasons that Odebrecht gives in favor of suspending this process effective cooperation this is due to “obvious dissatisfaction and old reasons”, as well as the fact that they do not accept his presence as a witness in international arbitrations involving Rutas de Lima and Gasoducto del Sur.

“These are obvious dissatisfaction, old reasons, about some procedural points that have long been worked out. These are, apparently, disagreements that have been detailed for quite a long time. Rutas de Lima, of which Odebrecht is a party. Apparently, they also object to my presence as a witness in international arbitrations in which a number of disputes are being discussed related to the execution of the Rutas de Lima and Gasoducto del Sur concession,” he said.