[News] Court prevents foreign language documents from being incorporated in Odebrecht case

[EvKirito]

The judges of the First Collegiate Court of the National District accepted this Thursday, partially, an opposition appeal presented by the defense of Conrado Pittaluga Arzeno, who opposed the incorporation of evidence authenticated by the Brazilian witness Rodrigo Maluf Cardoso, in the trial for the Odebrecht case.

The court decided to allow the Public Ministry to incorporate documents that are in Spanish as evidence and the debate on the incorporation of documents in foreign languages was reserved for another time.

They motivated that they have confirmed that the translations were deposited in the investigation stage, but since there are about 30 document boxes, they understand that it is essential to postpone the debate or the interrogations that are in progress.

Pittaluga's defense motivated his opposition by saying that the Public Ministry committed evidence smuggling and procedural fraud by trying to incorporate more evidence than was communicated to the parties and in a foreign language.

 

 

The hearing continues this Thursday between incidents, without being able to continue listening to the witness Marcelo Hofke.

The head of the Special Prosecutor's Office for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca), Wilson Camacho, referred to the actions of the defenses with a saying: "he who is drowning clings to any branch."

At stake in the Odebrecht bribery trial is the guilt and innocence of Ángel Rondón, Conrado Pittaluga, Víctor Díaz Rúa, Tommy Galán, Andrés Bautista, and Roberto Rodríguez.