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Cartagena, Colombia, Aug 17 (EFE).- Colombia’s attorney general said here Thursday that 60 people, including 33 current and former government officials, will be indicted for corruption in the awarding of a highway project to Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht. Prosecutors “have uncovered the criminal mechanism” whereby the multinational created a department “exclusively dedicated to the distribution …
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March 8, 2021
Colombia’s prosecution should be investigating the alleged corruption of Colombia’s most powerful banker, but opened unrelated criminal investigations instead.
In a press release, the prosecution implied in late February that it would revive “the Odebrecht Case,” but apparently forgot to include the biggest stars in the corruption scandal.
In fact, none of the “three fronts” in the investigation have anything to do with the corruption-ridden “Ruta del Sol II” project that implicate Colombia’s richest man, Luis Carlos Sarmiento, and former chief prosecutor Nestor Humberto Martinez.
The prosecution’s “new” investigations
One of the investigations targets Carlos Alberto Acero, the former subordinate of Jorge Enrique Pizano, who died of cyanide poisoning in November 2018 after blowing the whistle on fraud in the Ruta del Sol II project.