Reinforcements for Odebrecht prosecution team
Attorney General Eduardo Ulloa revealed on Sunday, February 2 the names of prosecutors Anilú Batista and Azucena Aizpurúa who will join the team led by Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Zuleika Moore investigating the Odebrecht multi-million dollar corruption scandal.
Among those under investigation are numerous high ranking officials in the Ricardo Martinelli administration, and his twoo They will begin their work on Monday, February 3.
Batista and Aizpurúa before being assigned to this investigation served as circuit prosecutors.
On January 6, 2020, the First Superior Court of Justice granted the protection of constitutional guarantees presented by Moore, in order to revoke the decision of the criminal judge Óscar Carrasquilla, who denied him the extension.
The First Superior Court considered that the “preparatory investigation” in the Odebrecht case can be extended for up to 5 months and 8 days, since the last year of extension granted to the prosecutor’s office (counted as of April 25, 2018), only Six months and 22 days have elapsed (to be computed from August 25, 2018 to March 19, 2019).
However, the case remained in the hands of the magistrates of the Supreme Court of Justice.
The process remains in the Supreme Court of because lawyers from three of the defendants appealed the decision of the First Superior Court to grant another 5 months and 8 more days to the prosecution to continue investigating.
