After the First Collegiate Court of the National District refused to suspend the hearing of the trial followed by the six involved in the Odebrecht case, the Public Ministry filed an appeal for partial opposition to the court decision, which refuses to include two fundamental pieces. of criminal prosecution evidence.
Mirna Ortiz, the special prosecutor’s litigation coordinator for the prosecution of administrative corruption (Pepca), asked the court, presided over by Judge Gisell Méndez, to overturn her own decision and allow the documentary evidence of the prosecution to be incorporated.
He claims that the Secretary-General of the Supreme Court provided documentary evidence to each of the defendants Ángel Rondón, Víctor Díaz Rúa, Andrés Bautista, Tommy Galán and Roberto Rodríguez.
Mirna Ortiz pointed out that the court was sent on all documentary evidence and that the defense always had them in their hands and that they have the inventory of those provided to the defendants in the case.
For his part, prosecutor José Miguel Marmolejo revealed in court that they have made an investigation and that they know what happened to the evidence that was rejected by the court yesterday, on the grounds that they are not translated into Spanish, such as the procedural rule.
Meanwhile, Pepca’s boss, Wilson Camacho, claims that, in this case, the evidence was translated into Spanish and that it was delivered by the Supreme Court to the accused “we want justice”.
For his part, Jorge López Hilario, a member of Andrés Bautista’s technical defense, asked the court to reject the opposition’s appeal as contradictory and to ratify its decision, ordering the continuation of the trial.
He considered that there was no evidence that Bautista’s defense had been notified of the evidence translated into Spanish, an argument which also supported the defense of the other defendants.
The evidence relating to the defendant’s defense relates to the fact that the Brazilian multinational pleads guilty to bribery in the country from 2001 to 2014.
Likewise, the leniency agreement between the Brazilian public minister, the United States Department of Justice and the Swiss Attorney General’s Office.