The prosecution asked the judges of the first collegiate court of the national district to suspend the proceedings on the merits followed by the six persons involved in the Odebrecht case, so that the Secretariat of the Supreme Court could deliver the evidence to the encartados.
Mirna Ortiz, process coordinator of the Special Prosecutor’s Office for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca), asked the court to grant that against the decision of the court refusing to include two basic evidence of the charge. request to comply with that part of the process.
The judges did not close with their motions either, Pepca’s prosecutors and the defendants’ technical defense withdrew to deliberate to return with a decision on the case.
However, Defendant Andrés Bautista’s technical defense, requesting that these two tests not be included in the trial, asked the judges to reject the request for a postponement.
Likewise, the defendants’ other defense also joined the motion to reject the postponement of the trial, as in their view this is not the procedural moment and that the prosecution has reserved them to file the opposition’s notice of objection. serve.
They argue that the prosecution has provided no grounds to justify its motion to adjourn the trial and that it should therefore be dismissed by the court.
The prosecution’s motion comes after the court refused to include as documentary evidence in the trial two pieces of evidence in which the Brazilian multinational company admits its guilt 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.