After some of the statements of witness Nadieska Álvarez about three companies of Ángel Rondón, where he explained that the Lashan company had “structured movements”, that the Los Angeles Exchange Agency, owned and accused, obtained two verifications of the construction company Odebrecht ” on behalf of other companies ”.
Ángel Rondón and his lawyer, José Miguel Minier, replied that the Public Prosecutor’s Office should question the chartered accountant, arguing that there was no check in any of the reports to be paid to any accused.
“She never said or asked the ministry if a check in the name of Andrés Bautista, Rondón companies or Rondón staff appeared in these transactions,” José Miguel Minier said when asked about the witness’s statements.
Rondón said those procedures Nadieska Álvarez is talking about are normal business operations.
Andrés Bautista’s defense
Other defendants, Andrés Bautista, also said yesterday that the witness refers to the report that was prepared by the Public Ministry to make the accusation of 92 million US dollars that were allegedly paid as a bribe to officials and legislators.
He also said that this report takes the accounts of the Bautista farm, which represents an accumulation of 17 years to make “an economic piece” and says that it comes from bribery.
Other witness statements
Nadieska Álvarez also spoke about the fact that “some relatives” of Jesús-Chu-Vázquez, the current Minister of Interior and Police; and Juan Roberto Rodríguez, former director of the National Institute of Drinking Water and Canals (Inapa), received checks from ARMA, one of the companies owned by Ángel Rondón.