Former Peruvian president Alan Garcia questioned in ongoing corruption investigation

Record ID: 904812

  • Title: Former Peruvian president Alan Garcia questioned in ongoing corruption investigation
  • Date: 1st August 2017
  • Summary: LIMA, PERU (FILE - 2006) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) GARCIA LEAVING PRESIDENTIAL PALACE WEARING PRESIDENTIAL SASH
  • Embargoed: 15th August 2017 21:46
  • Keywords: Peru former President Alan Garcia Oderbrecht scandal corruption
  • Location: LIMA, PERU
  • City: LIMA, PERU
  • Country: Peru
  • Topics: Crime/Law/Justice
  • Reuters ID: LVA0026SBTGLF
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:Former Peruvian President Alan Garcia answered on Tuesday (August 1) prosecutors' questions regarding a corruption investigation linked to the wider scandal of Brazilian builder Odebrecht.
    Prosecutors are investigating whether Garcia was involved in potential graft in the awarding of a $400 million contract for a metro line in the capital Lima during his second term.
    In December, Odebrecht admitted publicly that it doled out hundreds of millions in bribes to unnamed authorities across Latin America, including $29 million to win contracts in Peru over a decade-long period spanning three presidencies.
    After emerging from the session with prosecutors, Garcia declared his innocence to reporters, saying "others may have been bought but not me."
    A special prosecutor in the justice ministry, Katherine Ampuero, had asked prosecutors in the attorney general's office to include Garcia in its inquiry into Odebrecht's bribes, saying evidence exists that could lead to a conviction.
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