Witness Mauricio Dantas Bezerra was taken to another bathroom to avoid accidental meetings with defendants in the Odebrecht case in one of the bathrooms next to the First Collegiate Court of the National District, where the merits of the notorious case are known.
After the first break of the hearing on the merits, the President of the Court, Gissel Pérez Méndez, ordered a break to allow the witness to go to the bathroom, but instead to go to the bathroom on the first floor of the city court. Nueva was taken to the second floor to prevent witness contamination.
This happens after an unusual meeting took place yesterday between the witness Dantas Bezerra and the defendant Conrado Pittaluga, in one of the bathrooms located on the first floor, a few meters from the court.
As soon as Dantas Bezerra left the court, lawyer Conrad Pittaluga quickly followed him and entered the bathroom where the witness had gone.
As soon as they realized that the press was outside the bathroom, both the lawyer Conrad Pittaluga and the defendant Conrado Pittaluga and later the witness Dantas Bezerra came out.
The event comes at a time when Brazilian Mauricio Dantas Bezerra is being heard in court, where he has identified Conrado Pittaluga and Ángel Rondón as people who have been paid, who have been used to deliver congressmen and officials in exchange. contracting state works for Odebrecht.