After the first collegiate court of the national district refused to suspend the proceedings on the merits followed by the six persons involved in the Odebrecht case, the prosecution proceeded to appeal for partial opposition to the case. decision of the court refusing to include two basic pieces of evidence of the prosecution.
Mirna Ortiz, trial coordinator of the Special Prosecutor’s Office for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca), asked the court, chaired by Judge Gisell Méndez, to withdraw her own decision and allow the recording of evidence of the charge.
She claims that the Secretary General of the Supreme Court handed the evidence to each of the defendants Ángel Rondón, Víctor Díaz Rúa, Andrés Bautista, Tommy Galán and Roberto Rodríguez.
Mirna Ortiz emphasized that the court has received all the evidence and that the defense has always had it in their hands and that they have the inventory of what has been provided to the defendants in the case.
For his part, the prosecutor José Miguel Marmolejo has revealed in court that they have conducted an investigation and that they know what happened to the evidence rejected by the court yesterday because they were not translated into Spanish, such as the procedural rule.
Meanwhile, Pepca’s head, Wilson Camacho, claims that in this case, the evidence was translated into Spanish and that it was delivered by the Supreme Court to the accused “we want justice.”
For his part, Jorge López Hilario, a member of Andrés Bautista’s technical defense, asked the court to dismiss the opposition’s appeal as contradictory and uphold its decision, ordering the continuation of the merits process.
It considered that there is no evidence that Bautista’s defense had been informed of the evidence translated into Spanish, an argument which also supported the defense of the other defendants.
The evidence referring to the defendant’s defense is related to the Brazilian multinational corporation admitting its debt in paying bribes in the country from 2001 to 2014.
Likewise, the leniency program between Brazil’s Attorney General, the United States Department of Justice and the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland.