Here's how the money from Odebrecht to Santos 2010 was forged

A series of telephone intercepts to the ex-director of the campaign Santos 2014, Roberto Prieto which are part of the probative material of the investigation conducted against him by the scandal Odebrecht, gave a new insight on millions of dollars from the Brazilian company to the canopies of the President of the Republic, irregularly, in 2010.

Although these revelations made by La Radio, which belong to a record that is still alive , corroborate that there was the delivery of money and show how the controversial exgerente moved to contain the scandal, there are no statements that allow infer an acquaintance by the head of the State of the situation.

In one of the first recordings, dated March 10 of the year, finally, when the scandal broke, the president himself, Juan Manuel Santos calls Prieto to ask him for explanations on the Money he would have if He directed to some posters of his campaign.

The former director replies that there was a meeting in April between the financial team of the campaign, which names Orlando Sarri, Juan Claudio Morales and Consuelo Caldas with Luiz Bueno former director of Odebrecht and Eduardo Zambrano who was known as the liaison of the Brazilians to conduct bribes to politicians and officials. 19659003] In this, the President corroborates that the Brazilians have offered to contribute to the campaign, knowing that it is illegal to enter the money from private strangers, his team accepted the contribution and did not include the money in the official accounts. 19659003] The reaction of President Santos is calm in the face of the revelation, but the questions that he poses to Prieto by the directions of his campaign headquarters and by the identity of Santiago Rojas, director of the time, director of the DI, is striking. YEAR. In fact, Rojas is the only high profile involved in the scandal.

In question is the sentence of Santos: "I have just discovered", as he said four days after this recording, in which it is evident that speaks of money incomes of $ 25. Odebrecht for the posters

In other calls, Prieto points out that the president has nothing to do with what his team has done and ratifies that he will go to the media to defend him, because the other members of the cabinet are currently "cowards".

Prieto is currently in prison and is facing a charge of excessive lobbying in the Ruta del Sol 3, a case that has nothing to do with the money from Odebrecht in the presidential lodges.

In front of the president, the Charges Commission has decided to close its investigation and the National Electoral Council still has the case in the freezer.