Former lawyer Antonio Maldonado: suspension of cooperation agreement ‘exploded in the face of Peruvian authorities’

former Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Anthony Maldonadonoted that the announcement Brazilian prosecutor’s office temporarily suspend cooperation with Peru in case of Odebrecht, “exploded in the face of the Peruvian authorities”. He believes that they should lift the measure in order to continue the investigations that have been going on for years without a verdict.

“Department of International Cooperation Public servicebut accompanied by our office in the exercise of diplomacy and the rule of law and investigations,” he said in a Things as they are News RPP. For his part, he criticized the fact that the Brazilian side did not warn about a possible suspension of cooperation.

“He exploded in the face of the Peruvian authorities without realizing that this could happen and without warning that this suspension could be on the way,” he said..

He added that the complaint filed by Novor (formerly Odebrecht) must be assessed against “alleged abuses that Peru could have committed as a result of the use of evidence that was drawn up and agreed in accordance with Brazilian law” in order to be used in business. .

“A broad agreement was reached with the Brazilian Attorney General’s Office, which considered the formation of special and joint technical teams and Peruvian and Brazilian prosecutors to investigate the Odebrecht and Lava Jato corruption cases,” he commented.

Asked why there were delays in sentencing, Maldonado recalled that an agreement had been reached with Odebrecht for the company to cooperate with the information; however, it was not possible to determine exactly who would be part of the Kodynomes.

“As for the obstacles and problems in the research base, it was a question of deciphering the code and who were the people: Peruvian politicians or businessmen. But this process of identification has stalled for entirely unique reasons, such as the fact that Odebrecht he did not have the money to pay the company he hired to carry out said processing,” Maldonado commented, adding that there were several investigations, but there was no significant progress like the one in Peru.

Case of Cesar San Martin

On the other hand, he explained the panorama of the case on the crime of money laundering, which is assessed in the cases of Ollanta Humal and others, where both the Prosecutor’s Office and the Attorney General’s Office ask Judge Cesar San Martin to drop the case. .

“The ban has already been resolved by the criminal chamber, declaring it unacceptable. The Criminal Chamber considered that there were not sufficient grounds to assess that the involvement of San Martín would prejudice impartiality Power of attorney (…) San Martín himself coordinated the important process through which the key elements of the figures of the key elements of money laundering were rescued through the first cassation in 2017.”