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4 Peruvian Businessmen Sentenced to 18 Months in Odebrecht Case

  • Former president of Peru Alejandro Toledo and his wife Eliane Karp.

    Former president of Peru Alejandro Toledo and his wife Eliane Karp. | Photo: Reuters

Published 4 December 2017
Opinion

They, along with Odebrecht officials, have been accused of giving bribes to former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo.

Peru's judicial branch informed through its official Twitter account that, after weekend deliberations, it sentenced four representatives of companies associated with the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht to 18 months of preventive detention.

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They include, per preventive detention orders issued by the country's prosecutor's office: Gonzalo Ferraro Rey (former president of the G & M infrastructure area); Hernando Alejandro Graña Acuña (former director of the same company); Jose Fernando Castillo Dibos (director general de ICCGSA); and Fernando Gonzalo Camet Piccone (president of JJ Camet Contratistas Generales S.A.).

The same preventive detention order was issued for Jose Alejandro Graña Miro Quesada. All businessmen, along with Odebrecht officials, have been accused of giving bribes to former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo.

Apart from the former head of state, Peru's current President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski denied receiving campaign donations or bribes from Odebrecht, despite allegations claiming otherwise by the firm’s former president Marcelo Odebrecht.

Judge Richard Concepcion Carhuancho of the First Preparatory Investigation Court heard the arguments, which included Hamilton Castro, responsible for the Special Anticorruption Team investigating details of the case.

Brazil's Operation Car Wash investigations involving the Odebrecht construction conglomerate, including its petrochemical subsidiary, Braskem, stretch well beyond the country's borders. They've cooperated with Brazil's federal police to reveal bribes that were paid to public officials in Latin America and elsewhere. Company executives have been found guilty of illicitly acquiring contracts since 2001, admitting to paying more than US$788 million in 2016 to at least 12 different countries. Numerous ministers, presidential candidates and presidents, as well as businessmen and their associates, were reportedly party to the payout.

Since then, Latin American authorities have been making arrests of those cited in the ongoing investigations.

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