Odebrecht scandal putting unprecedented pressure on Colombias corrupt politics
Odebrecht scandal putting unprecedented pressure on Colombia’s corrupt politics
written by Jamie Vaughan Johnson March 13, 2017
With both the president and his opposition rival in the last elections implicated, the fallout from the Odebrecht corruption scandal in Colombia could cause an unexpected purge in Colombia’s corruption-ridden political establishment.
The Odebracht bribery scandal that was initially alleged by US judicial authorities, in Colombia is growing as bribery allegations implicate more and more top politicians and high-ranking officials.
The arrests made last year in relation to the scandal involving Brazil’s largest engineering firm were just the tip of the iceberg, revealed Colombia’s Prosecutor General, Nestor Humberto Martinez, ironically a former attorney for one of Odebrecht’s implicated subsidiaries.
To make the scope of the growing scandal somewhat clear, these are the people implicated in the scandal implicating both the administration of Juan Manuel Santos and that of opposition leader Alvaro Uribe.
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http://colombiareports.com/odebrecht-cndal-putting-unprecedented-pressure-colombias-corrupt-politics/