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Judi Lynn

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Tue Jan 22, 2019, 05:43 PM Jan 2019

Son of Colombia's richest man was informed about bribery: Odebrecht's former Colombia chief


by Adriaan Alsema January 22, 2019

The son of Luis Carlos Sarmiento, Colombia’s richest man, was personally informed about the bribery of the administration of former President Alvaro Uribe, the former Odebrecht Colombia director told a judge on Monday.

Luis Antonio Bueno, the Brazilian engineering firm’s former chief in Colombia, made the bombshell claim on the first day of hearings of three former Odebrecht executives who flew over from Brazil after being exempt from justice in Colombia.

Bueno was the first to testify and immediately implicated the son of the majority shareholder of banking giant Grupo Aval and Jose Elias Melo, the former CEO of Corficolombia.

Grupo Aval and Corficolombia teamed up with Odebrecht in a corrupt, but successful bid to construct the second stage of the so-called Ruta del Sol highway that connects the capital Bogota to the Caribbean coast.

More:
https://colombiareports.com/son-of-colombias-richest-man-was-informed-about-bribery-odebrechts-former-colombia-chief/

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