Prominent suspect avoids Odebrecht questions
Winston Spadafora Gálvez, son of controversial former Supreme Court judge magistrate Winston Spadafora invoked used Article 25 of the Constitution to avoid questioning by Anticorruption prosecutor Zuleyka Moore investigating multi-million dollar bribery by the Oderbrecht, Construction company
Article 35 states that no one is obliged to testify against himself. Attorney Orlando Barraza was questioned in the same investigation a day earlier..
In 2015, Spadafora Gálvez was investigated by the Anti-Corruption Public Prosecutor’s Office for the alleged embezzlement in the case of the purchase of food bags with funds from the now-defunct National Assistance Program (PAN).
The Odebrecht Anti-Corruption Special Prosecutor’s Office has made a fresh discovery that has led to a new line of investigation. These are contributions that presumably received from Odebrecht to the campaign account of the presidential candidate of Cambio Democrático in 2014, José Domingo Arias.
That investigation motivated the imputation of charges -for the alleged commission of the crime of money laundering- to Barraza and Spadafora Gálvez.
The prosecutor’s office found that the Arias campaign account, where it received Odebrecht’s contributions, simultaneously captured money from other sources, including contractor companies of the PAN.
