Commission mooted to investigate Varela corruption allegations
A MOVE to establish a commission to investigate cases of corruption involving the president and other authorities has been started by the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD).
Pedro Miguel González, PRD General Secretary and deputy said that if the recent denunciations against President Juan Carlos Varela have merit, the National Assembly must investigate to clarify whether it was committed or not.
In a Friday. Feb 10 press conference, Gonzalez said that the Constitution of the Republic establishes mechanisms to resolve situations such as those facing the country.
The leader of the PRD said he hoped to establish a commission to investigate.
The opposition is responding to the accusations expressed yesterday by lawyer Ramón Fonseca Mora, a former collaborator of Varela, who says he received campaign money from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, which has confessed to an international network of bribes to obtain contracts in 12 countries.
The Second Prosecutor Against Organized Crime ordered the arrest of jurists Ramón Fonseca Mora and Jürgen Mossack, following the raid of the firm they founded, which they relate to the institutionalized corruption case “Lava Jato”, originated in Brazil, and In which Odebrecht participated.
