Brazilian businessman Jorge Barata, former Odebrecht representative in Peru, will be one of the characters who will testify during the oral trial against the Peruvian political leader Keiko Fujimori for allegedly making illegal donations to his 2011 and 2016 election campaigns, prosecutors said.
“Jorge Barata, Odebrecht’s former superintendent, will come to this oral trial to testify to how Keiko Fujimori sent recruiters contribute $1 million to your campaign, “as well as other officials of the said company,” said the prosecutor in charge of the case, José Domingo Pérez, in the Third National Collegial Criminal Court.
The prosecutor said recordings of conversations between Barata and a former spokesman for Fujimori’s Fuerza Popular (FP) party would also be made public.) Jaime Yoshiyama, as well as other documents that allegedly show the Brazilian company’s ties to Fujimori.
Perez assured that the assets of the construction company were captured by Yoshiyama as well as FP representative Augusto Bedoya, on orders from the political leader.
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According to the tax service investigating The Jato Lava Incident in PeruFujimori’s party allegedly received illegal donations for the 2011 and 2016 election campaigns 17 million dollars.
Perez explained that these deposits as primary sources for Odebrecht as well as the national groups Credicorp, Rasmussen, the National Confederation of Private Business Institutions (Confiep) and businessman Luis Calle.
In this sense, he declared that Peruvian businessman Dionisio Romero will also be present in court. former president of Credicorp Group to testify that he “personally” handed over $3.6 million in cash to Fujimori after picking it up from a vault at his main headquarters in the La Molina district of Lima.
During the presentation of the charges at the oral trial opened against Fujimori and 45 others, the prosecutor said the former presidential candidate founded the FP. not only for the purpose of making a profit, but also to achieve impunity for its members, believing that they were involved in a criminal organization.
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Perez, who asks Fujimori to be sentenced to 30 years in prison, He added that the political leader “knew and controlled the income she collected” from her proselytizing activities.
He added that one of the prosecutor’s witnesses, businessman Antonio Camayoconfirmed that Fujimori was known by a pseudonym “Mrs. K.” and who was the one who carried out the vertical hierarchy, responsible for conducting and coordinating criminal activities.
Citing facts related to the crime of money laundering between 2011 and 2016, he recalled that Odebrecht admitted to the US Department of Justice that it gave bribes to finance political campaigns abroad with their profits from corruption.