On the fourth day of the trial against the former comptroller Carlos Politin the State of Florida, United States, has declared Geraldo de Souzawho worked as head of the financial administration of that Brazilian company in Ecuador.
De Souza was in charge of keeping track of the bribes given to the former comptroller Carlos Polit and other former officials. In a flash memory I had a file called ‘Miami’the alias with which payments to Polit.
While I had registered Alexis Meraformer legal secretary of Rafael Correaas ‘Miranda‘. With that code, Souza apparently he wrote down the amount that was paid to him.
It is not the first time that the name of Mera In this process, in recent days the former executive of Odebrecht José Conceição Santos He commented that the former official would have requested resources to eliminate a sanction against the company.
The Brazilian businessman did not remember the exact amount that was given to Alexis Mera, but said that it could be around 4 million dollars, according to a report from the portal Plan V.
Santos He added that he would have paid the money to Mera through the lawyer Carlos Parejabetter known as ‘Capaco‘, through whom he would also have paid bribes to two former officials of Petroecuador.
Alexis Mera has already responded to these accusations before. Mera says that he never asked anyone for money, and that if Carlos Pareja asked for it and received it using his name, he would have done it without him knowing anything.and that the alleged bribes never came into his possession.
Other revelations
On the other hand, Geraldo de Souza also confirmed that Carlos Politaccused of apparent money laundering, received bribes from Odebrecht. He explained that the wads of bills were delivered in briefcases to an apartment in Quito.
The amounts were invoiced between 2012 and 2013. For example, for the Pacific Refinery They paid 1.7 million, according to a report from Ecuavisa.
According to Vistazo Magazine, De Souza He also claimed to have lied in his testimony in Ecuador for him Bribery case. In 2019, she said she had delivered envelopes to Pamela Martinezbut I didn’t know anything about the content.
Pamela Martínez was secretary of then-president Rafael Correa.
Nevertheless, De Souza He recanted and confessed that those envelopes contained money. Before, he did not give that detail because he did not have an agreement with the Ecuadorian authorities and he was afraid of being prosecuted. In USA It does have an agreement to tell the truth.
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