Key witness who revealed Grupo Aval's corruption practices was murdered: family attorney

by Adriaan Alsema July 14, 2019

The key witness who tied Colombia’s former chief prosecutor and banking giant Grupo Aval to the Odebrecht bribery scandal was murdered, according to the family’s attorney.

Family attorney Luz Stella Gonzalez testified before Special Prosecutor Leonardo Espinosa in February that “it is clear to me” that “criminal hands were involved” in the death of key witness Jorge Enrique Pizano and his son Alejandro in October last year.

‘One can receive a bullet anytime here and I may die’
Gonzalez asked the special prosecutor to testify under oath after former Prosecutor General Nestor Humberto Martinez claimed that the son’s death was accidental because he drank from a cyanide-laced bottle of water left on his father’s desk by Pizano who died three days earlier.

The cause of death of the key witness was never established because prosecutors destroyed evidence, a scandal that cost the head of former Medical Examiner Carlos Valdes.

More:
https://colombiareports.com/key-witness-tying-colombias-former-chief-prosecutor-to-corruption-was-murdered-family-attorney/