Considered \r\nthe key witness in the Lava Jato case in Venezuela, Odebrecht managing director \r\nin Caracas, Euzenando Azevedo, collaborated with the Brazilian justice in \r\nexchange for procedural benefits. He gave his testimony in the courts of the \r\nState of Sergipe, northeast of Brazil, to avoid ending up in \r\njail.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n
It \r\nwas on December 16, 2016. Although a good portion of his words had already been \r\nquoted on this platform, the videos were kept in Brazil's courts for a year and \r\na half. But the secret has just been broken and today, it is possible to meet \r\nthem in an effort of the Network of Structured Journalists, which joins together \r\njournalists of IDL in Peru, La Nacion of Argentina, La Prensa of Panama, \r\nSudestada in Uruguay, and Quinto Elemento Lab in Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n
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Odebrecht\u2019s \r\nbribes also reached Pdvsa Agr\u00edcola, and among the beneficiaries, Egly Ram\u00edrez, \r\nfounder of Pdval and uncle of former president of PDVSA Rafael Ram\u00edrez, stands \r\nout. Marcio Faria, one of the senior managers of the Brazilian construction \r\ncompany, confessed that on December 14, in an interrogation t in the courts of \r\nthe State of Paraiba, northeast of Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n
According \r\nto the testimony of Far\u00eda, the subsidiary of Petr\u00f3leos de Venezuela commissioned \r\nethanol plants, which \u2013as already informed on this \r\nplatform<\/A>\u2013 apart from \r\nbribes and commissions, they did not even completed \r\nthem.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n The \r\nworks were half completed in the states of Barinas, Cojedes, Portuguesa and \r\nTrujillo. That is not the case of the disbursements to a Brazilian intermediary \r\ncalled Osvaldo Basteri, who then distributed them to the entire board of \r\ndirectors of Pdvsa Agr\u00edcola. \"The payments to that man were made through these \r\ncompanies, for which they used fictitious service provision contracts between us \r\nand Osvaldo's companies,\" he said. \"The payments were made through Hilberto \r\nSilva [head of the Structured Operations Sector]. I learned that the amount of \r\nthe bribe was around 6% on the amounts received, not the ??contracted \r\namounts.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t