Geraldo de Souzaexecutive of Odebrechthe said this April 11, during the trial of the former comptroller Carlos Polit in EUwho gave bribes to Pamela Martinezexasesora de Rafael Correa.
The digital medium Plan Vwhich covers the trial from USA, collected the testimony of the Brazilian citizen. The prosecutor Michael Berger asked him for Pamela Martinez.
He claimed that he gave him envelopes with money. Detail that she had not mentioned during the investigations by the Bribery case in Ecuador, in 2019. He had only said that he gave him some envelopes, but that he did not know what they contained. He now said that if he knew that those envelopes had cash. Why did you add this information?
“I was afraid that they would prosecute me because we did not have any agreement with the Ecuadorian authorities,” he stated, according to the aforementioned media.
Souza was not prosecuted Ecuador and in USA has a non-processing agreement.
In 2019, the Ecuadorian Prosecutor’s Office was still investigating the Bribery case. In this process, in 2020, both Martínez as Correa They were sentenced to prison. The first received a sentence of 9 months and 22 days and the former president received a sentence of eight years.
According to Ecuavisaduring the testimony, Geraldo de Souza He also detailed the millionaire bribes he gave to Polit. He is the second witness in the trial that will last at least four weeks.
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